Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 29

It was while he was in this condition of glee and expansion that the Flame Lady put her arms about his neck and begged he would tell her the story of Duv Laca, and, being boisterous then and full of good spirits, he agreed to her request, and he prepared to tell the tale.

Who acts: wine, Flame Lady, banquet, Lady · What happens: be, put, beg, tell, agree, prepare · To what, where: condition, arms, story, Lady, tale · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wine, Flame Lady, banquet, Lady), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 condition	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 condition	cop
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 condition	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 condition	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 condition	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 condition	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 condition	det
8	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 glee	case
10	glee	glee	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 condition	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 expansion	cc
12	expansion	expansion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 glee	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 put	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Lady	det
15	Flame	Flame	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Lady	compound
16	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 put	nsubj
17	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 condition	advcl
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 arms	nmod:poss
19	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 put	obj
20	about	about	ADP	_	22 neck	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 neck	nmod:poss
22	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 begged	cc
24	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 put	conj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tell	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 tell	aux
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 begged	ccomp
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tell	iobj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 story	det
30	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tell	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Duv	case
32	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 story	nmod
33	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Duv	flat
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 boisterous	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 boisterous	cc
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 boisterous	punct
37	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 boisterous	cop
38	boisterous	boisterous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tell	parataxis
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 boisterous	advmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 full	cc
41	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 boisterous	conj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 spirits	case
43	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 spirits	amod
44	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 full	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 agreed	punct
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 agreed	nsubj
47	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 tell	parataxis
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 request	case
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 request	nmod:poss
50	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 agreed	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 prepared	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 prepared	cc
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 prepared	nsubj
54	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 condition	parataxis
55	to	to	PART	_	56 tell	mark
56	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 prepared	xcomp
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 tale	det
58	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 tell	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 condition	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	wine			this condition		of glee and expansion	tree rules
2	put	past	the Flame Lady	Lady's arms				about banquet's neck	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arm=Theme about neck=Destination
3	beg speech: request	past	the Flame Lady not said here						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	would	banquet	the story of Duv	Lady				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient story=Topic
5	is	gerund					then	boisterous property	tree rules
6	be							of good spirits	tree rules
7	agree speech: agree	past	banquet					to Lady's request	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	prepare	past	banquet						vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
9	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	banquet not said here	the tale					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
10	request		Lady						nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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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