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title: On the morrow the state of siege continued, and through that day the… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On the morrow the state of siege continued, and through that day the servants were sent many times to observe through spy-holes. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 10

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On the morrow the state of siege continued, and through that day the servants were sent many times to observe through spy-holes.

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**What happens:** continue, send, observe · **To what, where:** state, morrow, servants, spy holes

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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: 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:pg2892:3:10
# text = On the morrow the state of siege continued, and through that day the servants were sent many times to observe through spy-holes.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	observe	observe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	spy	spy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | participle · passive |  | the state of siege |  | the morrow |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | past · passive |  | the servants |  |  | day; time |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **observe** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | spy holes |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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