Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 30

He marched his halls all night, going often to the spy-hole to see if that shadow was still sitting in the shade, and pacing thence, tormented, preoccupied, refusing even the nose of his favourite dog as it pressed lovingly into his closed palm.

Who acts: master, shadow · What happens: march, go, see, sit, pace, torment · To what, where: halls, spy hole, shade, nose, closed palm

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 (master, shadow), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 marched	nsubj
2	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 halls	nmod:poss
4	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 marched	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marched	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 going	punct
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 marched	advcl
9	often	often	ADV	_	14 hole	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 hole	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hole	det
12	spy	spy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hole	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 spy	punct
14	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 going	advcl
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 sitting	mark
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 shadow	det
19	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sitting	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sitting	aux
21	still	still	ADV	_	22 sitting	advmod
22	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 see	ccomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 shade	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 shade	det
25	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sitting	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pacing	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 pacing	cc
28	pacing	pace	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 marched	parataxis
29	thence	thence	ADV	_	28 pacing	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tormented	punct
31	tormented	torment	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 pacing	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 preoccupied	punct
33	preoccupied	preoccupy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 tormented	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 refusing	punct
35	refusing	refuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 marched	advcl
36	even	even	ADV	_	38 nose	advmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 nose	det
38	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 refusing	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 dog	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 dog	nmod:poss
41	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 dog	amod
42	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 nose	nmod
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 pressed	mark
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 pressed	nsubj
45	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 marched	advcl
46	lovingly	lovingly	ADV	_	45 pressed	advmod
47	into	into	ADP	_	50 palm	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 palm	nmod:poss
49	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 palm	amod
50	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 pressed	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 marched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	march	past	master	master's halls		night		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Trajectory
2	go	gerund	master not said here		the spy hole			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hole=Initial_Location
3	see	to-infinitive	master not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	sit a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	that shadow		the shade	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shade=Location
5	pace	gerund					thence property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	torment	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	preoccupy	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	refuse	gerund	master not said here	the nose of master's favourite dog				vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme
9	press	past	shadow		master's closed palm		lovingly property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent into palm=Trajectory
10	close	participle						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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