Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 23

There remained a laughing and crying and loving servant who wanted to tie himself into knots if that would please the son of his great captain.

Who acts: loving servant, that · What happens: remain, laugh, cry, want, tie, please · To what, where: loving servant, robber, son

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loving servant, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 remained	expl
2	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 servant	det
4	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 servant	csubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 crying	cc
6	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 laughing	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 servant	cc
8	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 servant	amod
9	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remained	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 wanted	nsubj
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 servant	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 tie	mark
13	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wanted	xcomp
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 tie	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 knots	case
16	knots	knot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tie	obl
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 please	mark
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 please	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 please	aux
20	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tie	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 son	det
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 please	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 captain	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 captain	nmod:poss
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 captain	amod
26	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 son	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remain	past		a loving servant	there		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme servant=Attribute
2	laugh	gerund					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cry speech: express	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	want	past	a loving servant				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	tie not said to happen	to-infinitive	a loving servant not said here	robber		into knots	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into knot=Co-Patient
6	please a condition, not said to happen	would	that	the son of robber's great captain			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus son=Experiencer

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.

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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