Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 15

And the words, “nothing, nothing, nothing,” began to drowse into the brains of every person present.

Who acts: words · What happens: begin, drowse · To what, where: brains

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 (words), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 began	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nothing	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 nothing	punct
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 words	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nothing	punct
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 nothing	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nothing	punct
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 nothing	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 words	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 words	punct
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 drowse	mark
15	drowse	drowse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 brains	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 brains	det
18	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 drowse	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 present	case
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 present	det
21	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 present	compound
22	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 brains	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the words						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	drowse	to-infinitive	the words not said here			the brains of every person present			vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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