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title: She was glad also of a respite which would enable her to settle into… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She was glad also of a respite which would enable her to settle into her home and draw about her the composure which women feel when they are surrounded by the walls of their houses, and can see about them the possessions which, by the fact of ownership, have become almost a part of their personalit
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 3

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She was glad also of a respite which would enable her to settle into her home and draw about her the composure which women feel when they are surrounded by the walls of their houses, and can see about them the possessions which, by the fact of ownership, have become almost a part of their personality.

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**Who acts:** light, women, walls, fact · **What happens:** be, enable, settle, draw, feel, surround · **To what, where:** light, home, composure, women, possessions, part

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, women, walls, fact), 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:pg2892:43:3
# text = She was glad also of a respite which would enable her to settle into her home and draw about her the composure which women feel when they are surrounded by the walls of their houses, and can see about them the possessions which, by the fact of ownership, have become almost a part of their personality.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	respite	respite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	enable	enable	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	draw	draw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	composure	composure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
24	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	ccomp	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
40	about	about	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	by	by	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	parataxis	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	ownership	ownership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	48	acl	_	_
54	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	xcomp	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	personality	personality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | light |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **enable** | would |  | light |  |  |  | of a respite | tree rules |
| 3 | **settle** | to-infinitive | light *not said here* |  |  | light's home |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **draw** | present |  | the composure |  |  |  | about light | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent composure=Theme |
| 5 | **feel** | present | women | the composure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **surround** | present · passive | the walls of women's houses | women *= woman* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 7 | **see** | can |  | the possessions |  |  |  | about women *= woman* | tree rules |
| 8 | **become** | present · perfect | the fact of ownership *not said here* | a part of women's personality |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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