Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 4

Then the attendants brought him wine, and he drank so joyously of that and so deeply, that those who observed him thought he would surely burst and drown them.

Who acts: attendants, he, those · What happens: bring, drink, observe, think, burst, drown · To what, where: wine, him, attendants · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attendants, he, those), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 brought	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 attendants	det
3	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brought	nsubj
4	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brought	obj
6	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drank	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 drank	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 drank	nsubj
10	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brought	parataxis
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 joyously	advmod
12	joyously	joyously	ADV	_	10 drank	advmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 that	case
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 joyously	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 deeply	cc
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 deeply	advmod
17	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	12 joyously	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 thought	mark
20	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 thought	nsubj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 observed	nsubj
22	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 those	acl:relcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 observed	obj
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 drank	conj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 burst	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 burst	aux
27	surely	surely	ADV	_	28 burst	advmod
28	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 thought	ccomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 drown	cc
30	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 burst	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 drown	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	the attendants	wine	him = he	then		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination wine=Theme
2	drink	past	he				joyously property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	observe	past		him = he				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic
4	think speech: other	past	those					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	burst	would	he				surely property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	drown	infinitive	he not said here	attendants = attendant				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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