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title: He barricaded his house, he shuttered his windows, and in a gloom of… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He barricaded his house, he shuttered his windows, and in a gloom of indignation and protest he continued the practices of ten thousand years, and would not hearken to Finnian calling at the window or to Time knocking at his door. Who acts: gentleman. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Steph
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 15

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He barricaded his house, he shuttered his windows, and in a gloom of indignation and protest he continued the practices of ten thousand years, and would not hearken to Finnian calling at the window or to Time knocking at his door.

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**Who acts:** gentleman · **What happens:** barricade, shutter, continue, not hearken, call, knock · **To what, where:** house, windows, practices, gloom, Finnian, Time · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:2:15
# text = He barricaded his house, he shuttered his windows, and in a gloom of indignation and protest he continued the practices of ten thousand years, and would not hearken to Finnian calling at the window or to Time knocking at his door.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	barricaded	barricade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	shuttered	shutter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	gloom	gloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	indignation	indignation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	protest	protest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	practices	practice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	compound	_	_
25	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Finnian	Finnian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Time	Time	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
41	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	conj	_	_
42	at	at	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **barricade** | past | gentleman | gentleman's house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shutter** | past | gentleman | gentleman's windows |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent window=Destination |
| 3 | **continue** | past | gentleman | the practices of thousand years |  | a gloom of indignation and protest |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent practice=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **hearken** | would | gentleman *not said here* |  | Finnian |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **call** | gerund | gentleman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the window | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at window=Stimulus |
| 6 | **knock** | gerund | gentleman *not said here* |  | Time |  |  | at gentleman's door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
| 7 | **practice** |  |  | thousand years |  |  |  |  | nom practice «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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