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title: He ate of these until he was no more than a sack of juice, and when… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He ate of these until he was no more than a sack of juice, and when he heard the humming and buzzing of Cael of the Iron he mourned and lamented that he could not wait to eat his fill He took off his coat, stuffed it full of blackberries, swung it on his shoulders, and went bounding stoutly and nimb
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 45

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He ate of these until he was no more than a sack of juice, and when he heard the humming and buzzing of Cael of the Iron he mourned and lamented that he could not wait to eat his fill He took off his coat, stuffed it full of blackberries, swung it on his shoulders, and went bounding stoutly and nimbly for Ben Edair.

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**Who acts:** Carl, fill · **What happens:** eat, not be, hear, mourn, lament, not wait · **To what, where:** humming, Iron, coat, shoulders

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carl, fill), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2892:52:45
# text = He ate of these until he was no more than a sack of juice, and when he heard the humming and buzzing of Cael of the Iron he mourned and lamented that he could not wait to eat his fill He took off his coat, stuffed it full of blackberries, swung it on his shoulders, and went bounding stoutly and nimbly for Ben Edair.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	_
5	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	no	no	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	obj	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	humming	humming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	buzzing	buzzing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Cael	Cael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	mourned	mourn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	lamented	lament	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	fill	fill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
42	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	parataxis	_	_
44	off	off	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	xcomp	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
54	swung	swing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	conj	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	_
56	on	on	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
62	bounding	bound	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	61	xcomp	_	_
63	stoutly	stoutly	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
65	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	RB	_	63	conj	_	_
66	for	for	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	_
68	Edair	Edair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	67	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | Carl |  |  |  |  | of these | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of this=Source |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | Carl |  |  |  |  | than a sack of juice; more *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | past | Carl | the humming and buzzing of Cael of the Iron |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer humming=Stimulus |
| 4 | **mourn** | past | Carl | the Iron *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer iron=Stimulus |
| 5 | **lament** | past | Carl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **not** **wait** | could | Carl |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Carl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **take off** | past | Carl's fill | Carl's coat |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme |
| 9 | **stuff** | past | Carl's fill *not said here* | coat |  |  |  | full *property* | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 10 | **swing** | past | Carl's fill *not said here* | coat |  | Carl's shoulders |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=Location |
| 11 | **go** | past | Carl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 12 | **bound** | gerund | Carl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Ben; stoutly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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