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title: The Chamberlain of the fortress pushed into the room and he stared f… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Chamberlain of the fortress pushed into the room and he stared from one Tibraide’ to the other. Who acts: Chamberlain. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 16

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The Chamberlain of the fortress pushed into the room and he stared from one Tibraide’ to the other.

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**Who acts:** Chamberlain · **What happens:** push, stare · **To what, where:** fortress, room

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chamberlain), 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:pg2892:88:16
# text = The Chamberlain of the fortress pushed into the room and he stared from one Tibraide’ to the other.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Chamberlain	Chamberlain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fortress	fortress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stared	stare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
15	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | participle |  | the fortress *not said here* |  | the room |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into room=Destination |
| 2 | **stare** | past | the Chamberlain of the fortress |  |  |  |  | from one  Tibraide to the other | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from one=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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