Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 6

The abbot’s manuscript boxes began to fill up, and he used to regard that growing store with pride and joy.

Who acts: manuscript boxes, neighbourhood · What happens: begin, fill up, use, regard, grow · To what, where: growing store

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manuscript boxes, neighbourhood), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 abbot	det
2	abbot	abbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boxes	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 abbot	case
4	manuscript	manuscript	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boxes	compound
5	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fill	mark
8	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 fill	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 used	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 used	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 used	nsubj
13	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 regard	mark
15	regard	regard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 used	xcomp
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 store	det
17	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 store	amod
18	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 regard	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 pride	case
20	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 regard	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 joy	cc
22	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pride	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the abbot's manuscript boxes			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fill up	to-infinitive	the abbot's manuscript boxes not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	use	past	neighbourhood			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	regard	to-infinitive	neighbourhood not said here	that growing store	with pride and joy	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent store=Theme
5	grow	gerund				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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