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title: Then the attendants brought him wine, and he drank so joyously of th… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the attendants brought him wine, and he drank so joyously of that and so deeply, that those who observed him thought he would surely burst and drown them. Who acts: attendants, he, those. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 4

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Then the attendants brought him wine, and he drank so joyously of that and so deeply, that those who observed him thought he would surely burst and drown them.

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**Who acts:** attendants, he, those · **What happens:** bring, drink, observe, think, burst, drown · **To what, where:** wine, him, attendants · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attendants, he, those), 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:pg2892:84:4
# text = Then the attendants brought him wine, and he drank so joyously of that and so deeply, that those who observed him thought he would surely burst and drown them.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	joyously	joyously	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	observed	observe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | the attendants | wine | him *= he* |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination wine=Theme |
| 2 | **drink** | past | he |  |  |  |  | joyously *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **observe** | past |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | those |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **burst** | would | he |  |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **drown** | infinitive | he *not said here* | attendants *= attendant* |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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