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title: Then she sat quietly in a seat gazing on the recumbent monarch, and… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she sat quietly in a seat gazing on the recumbent monarch, and prepared to consider how she should advance to him when he awakened, and with what information she might stay his inquiries or reproaches. Who acts: Becfola, seat, king. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 6

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Then she sat quietly in a seat gazing on the recumbent monarch, and prepared to consider how she should advance to him when he awakened, and with what information she might stay his inquiries or reproaches.

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**Who acts:** Becfola, seat, king · **What happens:** sit, gaze, consider, advance, awaken, stay · **To what, where:** seat, king, inquiries

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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 (Becfola, seat, king), 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:pg2892:43:6
# text = Then she sat quietly in a seat gazing on the recumbent monarch, and prepared to consider how she should advance to him when he awakened, and with what information she might stay his inquiries or reproaches.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	recumbent	recumbent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	advance	advance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	31	det	_	_
31	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	reproaches	reproach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Becfola |  |  | a seat | then | quietly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=Location |
| 2 | **gaze** | gerund | a seat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the recumbent monarch | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on monarch=Theme |
| 3 | **consider** | to-infinitive | Becfola *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **advance** | should | Becfola |  | king |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **awaken** | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **stay** | might | Becfola | king's inquiries or reproaches |  |  |  | with what information | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme inquiry=Location |
| 7 | **inquire** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom inquiry «cognition transitive»: poss=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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