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title: The great door was swung wide, and two of his servants carried Finni… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The great door was swung wide, and two of his servants carried Finnian into the house, for the saint could no longer walk or stand upright by reason of the hunger and exposure to which he had submitted. Who acts: two, saint, master. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, wi
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 32

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The great door was swung wide, and two of his servants carried Finnian into the house, for the saint could no longer walk or stand upright by reason of the hunger and exposure to which he had submitted.

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**Who acts:** two, saint, master · **What happens:** swing, carry, walk, stand, submit · **To what, where:** great door, Finnian, house

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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 (two, saint, master), 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:pg2892:3:32
# text = The great door was swung wide, and two of his servants carried Finnian into the house, for the saint could no longer walk or stand upright by reason of the hunger and exposure to which he had submitted.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	swung	swing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	Finnian	Finnian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	no	no	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	upright	upright	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	exposure	exposure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obl	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	submitted	submit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swing** | past · passive |  | the great door |  |  |  | wide *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | past | two of master's servants | Finnian |  | the house |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finnian=Theme |
| 3 | **walk** | could | the saint |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | infinitive | the saint *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by reason of the hunger and exposure; upright *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by reason=Location |
| 5 | **submit** | past · perfect | master |  |  |  |  | to exposure | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to which=Theme |

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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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