Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 30
After that they all got drunk and merry, and soon there was a great snoring and snorting, and very soon all the servants fell asleep also, so that Mongan could not get anything to drink.
Who acts: kisses, great snoring, servants, Mongan, anything · What happens: get, be, fall, not get, drink · To what, where: anything
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kisses, great snoring, servants, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 got | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 got | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 merry | cc |
| 8 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 drunk | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 was | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 was | cc |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 was | advmod |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 snoring | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 snoring | amod |
| 16 | snoring | snoring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 snorting | cc |
| 18 | snorting | snorting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 snoring | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fell | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fell | cc |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 soon | advmod |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 fell | advmod |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 servants | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 servants | det |
| 25 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 fell | nsubj |
| 26 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 27 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fell | xcomp |
| 28 | also | also | ADV | _ | 27 asleep | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 get | punct |
| 30 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 35 get | mark |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 so | fixed |
| 32 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 get | nsubj |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 get | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 get | advmod |
| 35 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 fell | conj |
| 36 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 35 get | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 drink | mark |
| 38 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 get | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | kisses = kiss | after that | drunk property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | be | past | a great snoring and snorting | there | soon property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | fall | past | all servants | asleep, soon property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not get | could | Mongan | anything | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | drink | to-infinitive | anything not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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