Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 16

Then these groups would disperse to peep through the spy-hole at the patient, immobile figure seated before the door, wrapped in a meditation that was timeless and unconcerned.

Who acts: groups, meditation · What happens: disperse, peep, seat, wrap, be, unconcern · To what, where: immobile figure, spy hole, meditation

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (groups, meditation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 disperse	advmod
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 groups	det
3	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 disperse	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 disperse	aux
5	disperse	disperse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 peep	mark
7	peep	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 disperse	xcomp
8	through	through	ADP	_	12 hole	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hole	det
10	spy	spy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hole	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 spy	punct
12	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 peep	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 patient	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 patient	det
15	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hole	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 figure	punct
17	immobile	immobile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 figure	amod
18	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 patient	appos
19	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 figure	acl
20	before	before	ADP	_	22 door	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 door	det
22	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seated	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wrapped	punct
24	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 hole	acl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 meditation	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 meditation	det
27	meditation	meditation	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wrapped	obl
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 timeless	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 timeless	cop
30	timeless	timeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 meditation	acl:relcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 unconcerned	cc
32	unconcerned	unconcern	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 timeless	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 disperse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disperse	would	this groups			then		tree rules
2	peep	to-infinitive	this groups not said here				through the spy hole at the patient	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through hole=Theme
3	seat	participle		immobile figure not said here		before the door		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
4	wrap	participle		the spy hole at the patient not said here	a meditation			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in meditation=Destination
5	is	past	a meditation				timeless property	tree rules
6	unconcern	participle	a meditation not said here					tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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