Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 2

But at the end of a time that pleasure was worn out, and Mongan grew at first dispirited and then sullen, and after that as ill as he had been on the previous occasion.

Who acts: Mongan, feeling · What happens: wear out, grow, dispirit, be · To what, where: pleasure, end, previous occasion

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, feeling), 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	_	11 worn	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 end	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 end	det
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 worn	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 pleasure	det
9	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 worn	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 worn	aux:pass
11	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 worn	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grew	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 grew	cc
15	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 grew	nsubj
16	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 worn	conj
17	at	at	SCONJ	_	19 dispirited	mark
18	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 dispirited	advmod
19	dispirited	dispirit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 grew	advcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sullen	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 sullen	advmod
22	sullen	sullen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dispirited	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ill	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 ill	cc
25	after	after	ADP	_	26 that	case
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 ill	obl
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 ill	advmod
28	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grew	advcl
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 occasion	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 occasion	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 occasion	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 occasion	cop
33	on	on	ADP	_	36 occasion	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 occasion	det
35	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 occasion	amod
36	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ill	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 worn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear out	past · passive		that pleasure		at the end of a time		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
2	grow	past	Mongan					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dispirit	participle	Mongan not said here				first property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past · perfect	feeling		the previous occasion			tree rules

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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