Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 38
That was the end of the story, and when he had told it Mongan began to laugh uproariously and called for more wine.
Who acts: That, Branduv, story · What happens: be, tell, begin, laugh, call · To what, where: end · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (That, Branduv, story), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 end | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 end | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 told | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 told | aux |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 end | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 began | nsubj |
| 15 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 began | nsubj |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 told | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 laugh | mark |
| 18 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 began | xcomp |
| 19 | uproariously | uproariously | ADV | _ | 18 laugh | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 called | cc |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 began | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 wine | case |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 wine | amod |
| 24 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 end | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | the end | of the story | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | Branduv | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | story | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | laugh | to-infinitive | story not said here | uproariously property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | call | participle | story not said here | for more wine | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for wine=Recipient |
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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