--- title: He fasted on the gentleman, and he did so to such purpose that he wa… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He fasted on the gentleman, and he did so to such purpose that he was admitted to the house; for to an hospitable heart the idea that a stranger may expire on your doorstep from sheer famine cannot be tolerated. Who acts: person, stranger. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/3/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter II](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/3/) / 2 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 2 He fasted on the gentleman, and he did so to such purpose that he was admitted to the house; for to an hospitable heart the idea that a stranger may expire on your doorstep from sheer famine cannot be tolerated. **Who acts:** person, stranger · **What happens:** fast, do, admit, expire, not tolerate · **To what, where:** person, house, heart idea, doorstep This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, stranger), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:3:2 # text = He fasted on the gentleman, and he did so to such purpose that he was admitted to the house; for to an hospitable heart the idea that a stranger may expire on your doorstep from sheer famine cannot be tolerated. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 fasted fast VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 gentleman gentleman NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 admitted admit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 hospitable hospitable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 expire expire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 doorstep doorstep NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 sheer sheer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 famine famine NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 40 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 tolerated tolerate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fast** | past | person | | | | | on the gentleman | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | past | person | | | | | to such purpose | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **admit** *speech: other* | past · passive | | person | the house | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to house=Recipient | | 4 | **expire** | may | a stranger | the heart idea *not said here* | | your doorstep | | from sheer famine | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **tolerate** | can · passive | | the heart idea | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/3/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/3/3/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/3/)