Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 1

Late that night, when he was preparing for rest, the door of Fionn’s chamber opened gently and a young woman came into the room.

Who acts: he, door, young woman · What happens: prepare, open, come · To what, where: room

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 (he, door, young woman), 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	Late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 night	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 preparing	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 preparing	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 preparing	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 preparing	aux
8	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 rest	case
10	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 preparing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 door	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 opened	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 chamber	case
15	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 chamber	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 Fionn	case
17	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 door	nmod
18	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 preparing	parataxis
19	gently	gently	ADV	_	18 opened	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 woman	det
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 woman	amod
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 opened	conj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 room	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 room	det
27	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 preparing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	prepare	past · progressive	he		night	for rest	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for rest=Beneficiary
2	open	past	the door of Fionn's chamber			gently property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	a young woman	the room			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location

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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