--- title: It is to be known that on the night of the Feast of Samhain the door… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: It is to be known that on the night of the Feast of Samhain the doors separating this world and the next one are opened, and the inhabitants of either world can leave their respective spheres and appear in the world of the other beings. Who acts: doors, inhabitants. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/25/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter XII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/25/) / 1 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 1 It is to be known that on the night of the Feast of Samhain the doors separating this world and the next one are opened, and the inhabitants of either world can leave their respective spheres and appear in the world of the other beings. **Who acts:** doors, inhabitants · **What happens:** know, separate, open, leave, appear · **To what, where:** It, world, doors, respective spheres · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doors, inhabitants), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:25:1 # text = It is to be known that on the night of the Feast of Samhain the doors separating this world and the next one are opened, and the inhabitants of either world can leave their respective spheres and appear in the world of the other beings. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Samhain Samhain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 separating separate VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 18 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 opened open VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 inhabitants inhabitant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 either either DET DT PronType=Ind 32 det _ _ 32 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 respective respective ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 spheres sphere NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 appear appear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 beings being NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present · passive | | It | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **separate** | gerund | the doors *not said here* | this world and the next one | | | | | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Patient | | 3 | **open** | present · passive | | the doors | | | night | of the Feast of Samhain | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **leave** | can | the inhabitants of either world | world's respective spheres | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sphere=Theme | | 5 | **appear** | present | the inhabitants of either world *not said here* | | | the world of the other beings | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=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. - ← previous: [Chapter XI, 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/24/44/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/25/2/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/25/)