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title: He marched his halls all night, going often to the spy-hole to see i… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He marched his halls all night, going often to the spy-hole to see if that shadow was still sitting in the shade, and pacing thence, tormented, preoccupied, refusing even the nose of his favourite dog as it pressed lovingly into his closed palm. Who acts: master, shadow. A sentence of «Irish Fairy T
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 30

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He marched his halls all night, going often to the spy-hole to see if that shadow was still sitting in the shade, and pacing thence, tormented, preoccupied, refusing even the nose of his favourite dog as it pressed lovingly into his closed palm.

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**Who acts:** master, shadow · **What happens:** march, go, see, sit, pace, torment · **To what, where:** halls, spy hole, shade, nose, closed palm

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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 (master, shadow), 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:pg2892:3:30
# text = He marched his halls all night, going often to the spy-hole to see if that shadow was still sitting in the shade, and pacing thence, tormented, preoccupied, refusing even the nose of his favourite dog as it pressed lovingly into his closed palm.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	marched	march	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	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	spy	spy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	pacing	pace	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
29	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	tormented	torment	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	preoccupied	preoccupy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	refusing	refuse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
36	even	even	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
43	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
46	lovingly	lovingly	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	into	into	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
49	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	amod	_	_
50	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **march** | past | master | master's halls |  |  | night |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Trajectory |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | master *not said here* |  |  | the spy hole |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hole=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | master *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sit** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · progressive | that shadow |  |  | the shade | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shade=Location |
| 5 | **pace** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | thence *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **torment** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **preoccupy** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **refuse** | gerund | master *not said here* | the nose of master's favourite dog |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme |
| 9 | **press** | past | shadow |  |  | master's closed palm |  | lovingly *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent into palm=Trajectory |
| 10 | **close** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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