Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 5

Every few minutes he gave a great sigh as if he had eaten too much, and when Duv Laca asked him if he had eaten too much he said he had but that he had not drunk enough, and by that he meant that he had not drunk enough from the eyes of the girl before him.

Who acts: few minutes, Branduv, Duv · What happens: give, eat, ask, say, have, not drink · To what, where: great sigh, much, Branduv · 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 (few minutes, Branduv, Duv), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 minutes	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 minutes	amod
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gave	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sigh	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sigh	amod
8	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 eaten	mark
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 eaten	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eaten	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 eaten	aux
13	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 gave	advcl
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eaten	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 asked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 asked	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 asked	advmod
19	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 asked	nsubj
20	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Duv	flat
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	parataxis
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 asked	iobj
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 eaten	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 eaten	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 eaten	aux
26	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 asked	advcl
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADV	_	30 said	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 eaten	advcl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 said	ccomp
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 drunk	cc
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 drunk	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 drunk	nsubj:pass
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 drunk	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 drunk	advmod
38	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 had	conj
39	enough	enough	ADV	_	38 drunk	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 meant	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 meant	cc
42	by	by	SCONJ	_	45 meant	mark
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 meant	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 meant	nsubj
45	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	conj
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 drunk	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 drunk	nsubj
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 drunk	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 drunk	advmod
50	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 meant	ccomp
51	enough	enough	ADV	_	50 drunk	advmod
52	from	from	ADP	_	54 eyes	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 eyes	det
54	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 drunk	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 girl	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 girl	det
57	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 eyes	nmod
58	before	before	ADP	_	59 him	case
59	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 meant	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	every few minutes	a great sigh				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme
2	eat	past · perfect	Branduv	much				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
3	ask speech: ask	past	Duv		Branduv			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	eat a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Branduv					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	Branduv					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have	past	Branduv					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	not drink	past · perfect · passive		Branduv			enough property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	mean	past	Branduv			before feast		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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