Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 28

There were seven vats of wine, and as Mongan loved wine he was very happy, and he drank more on that occasion than any one had ever noticed him to drink before.

Who acts: seven vats, Mongan, banquet · What happens: be, love, drink, notice · To what, where: wine, banquet, occasion

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 (seven vats, Mongan, banquet), 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 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 vats	nummod
4	vats	vat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 wine	case
6	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vats	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 loved	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 loved	cc
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 loved	mark
10	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 loved	nsubj
11	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	parataxis
12	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 loved	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 happy	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 happy	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 happy	advmod
16	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wine	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 drank	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 drank	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 drank	nsubj
20	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 loved	conj
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 drank	advmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 occasion	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 occasion	det
24	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 noticed	obl
25	than	than	ADP	_	27 one	case
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 noticed	obl
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 noticed	aux
29	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 noticed	advmod
30	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 drank	parataxis
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 noticed	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 drink	mark
33	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 noticed	advcl
34	before	before	ADV	_	33 drink	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	seven vats of wine		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	love	past	Mongan	wine				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wine=Stimulus
3	is	past	banquet	wine not said here			happy property	tree rules
4	drink	past	banquet					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	notice	past · perfect		banquet	that occasion	ever	than any one	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	drink	to-infinitive					before property	vn eat-39.1-1 «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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