Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 37

He grew bolder then, and drank the full of a thimble of it, and then as much again, and he never stopped till he had half the cup drunk.

Who acts: herb · What happens: grow, drink, not stop, have · To what, where: full, cup drunk

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herb), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bolder	bold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 grew	xcomp
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 grew	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 drank	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 drank	cc
7	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 full	det
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 drank	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 thimble	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 thimble	det
12	thimble	thimble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 full	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thimble	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 again	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 again	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 again	advmod
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADV	_	20 again	advmod
20	again	again	ADV	_	7 drank	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stopped	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stopped	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 stopped	nsubj
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 stopped	advmod
25	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	conj
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 had	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stopped	advcl
29	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	32 drunk	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 drunk	det
31	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 drunk	compound
32	drunk	drunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	herb		then	bold property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drink	past	herb not said here	the full	again		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent full=Patient
3	not stop	past	herb				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	have	past	herb	half cup drunk			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drunk=Patient

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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