Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 4

“Let us keep to the story,” said Mongan, and, having taken some few dozen deep draughts of the wine, he became even more jovial than before.

Who acts: us, Mongan · What happens: let, keep, say, take, become · To what, where: us, few dozen deep draughts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, Mongan), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 story	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 taken	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 taken	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 having	punct
15	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 taken	aux
16	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	conj
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 draughts	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 draughts	amod
19	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 draughts	nummod
20	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 draughts	amod
21	draughts	draught	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 taken	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 wine	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wine	det
24	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 draughts	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 became	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 became	nsubj
27	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 taken	conj
28	even	even	ADV	_	29 more	advmod
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 jovial	advmod
30	jovial	jovial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 became	xcomp
31	than	than	ADP	_	32 before	case
32	before	before	ADV	_	30 jovial	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		us		tree rules
2	keep in a quote	infinitive	us not said here		to the story	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Mongan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take	gerund · perfect	Mongan not said here	some few dozen deep draughts of the wine		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Theme
5	become	past	Mongan		jovial property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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