Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 5

But he laughed loudly and with enormous delight, until the vessels of gold and silver and bronze chimed mellowly to his peal and the rafters of the house went creaking.

Who acts: he, vessels, rafters, his · What happens: laugh, chime, go, creak, peal

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 (he, vessels, rafters, his), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 laughed	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	3 laughed	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 delight	cc
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 delight	case
7	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 delight	amod
8	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 chimed	punct
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	19 chimed	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 vessels	det
12	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 chimed	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 gold	case
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vessels	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 silver	cc
16	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gold	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bronze	cc
18	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gold	conj
19	chimed	chime	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	conj
20	mellowly	mellowly	ADV	_	19 chimed	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 peal	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 peal	nmod:poss
23	peal	peal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chimed	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rafters	det
26	rafters	rafter	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 went	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 house	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 house	det
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rafters	nmod
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 chimed	conj
31	creaking	creak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 went	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he	loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chime	past	the vessels of gold and silver and bronze	to his peal; mellowly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past	the rafters of the house		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	creak	gerund	the rafters of the house not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	peal		his = he		nom peal «event intransitive»: 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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