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title: Then these groups would disperse to peep through the spy-hole at the… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then these groups would disperse to peep through the spy-hole at the patient, immobile figure seated before the door, wrapped in a meditation that was timeless and unconcerned. Who acts: groups, meditation. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 16

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Then these groups would disperse to peep through the spy-hole at the patient, immobile figure seated before the door, wrapped in a meditation that was timeless and unconcerned.

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**Who acts:** groups, meditation · **What happens:** disperse, peep, seat, wrap, be, unconcern · **To what, where:** immobile figure, spy hole, meditation

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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: who acts (groups, meditation), 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:pg2892:3:16
# text = Then these groups would disperse to peep through the spy-hole at the patient, immobile figure seated before the door, wrapped in a meditation that was timeless and unconcerned.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	disperse	disperse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	peep	peep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	spy	spy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	patient	patient	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	immobile	immobile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	meditation	meditation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	timeless	timeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	unconcerned	unconcern	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disperse** | would | this groups |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **peep** | to-infinitive | this groups *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through the spy hole at the patient | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through hole=Theme |
| 3 | **seat** | participle |  | immobile figure *not said here* |  |  | before the door |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 4 | **wrap** | participle |  | the spy hole at the patient *not said here* |  | a meditation |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in meditation=Destination |
| 5 | **is** | past | a meditation |  |  |  |  | timeless *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **unconcern** | participle | a meditation *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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