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title: But at the end of a time that pleasure was worn out, and Mongan grew… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But at the end of a time that pleasure was worn out, and Mongan grew at first dispirited and then sullen, and after that as ill as he had been on the previous occasion. Who acts: Mongan, feeling. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 2

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But at the end of a time that pleasure was worn out, and Mongan grew at first dispirited and then sullen, and after that as ill as he had been on the previous occasion.

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**Who acts:** Mongan, feeling · **What happens:** wear out, grow, dispirit, be · **To what, where:** pleasure, end, previous occasion

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, feeling), 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:pg2892:89:2
# text = But at the end of a time that pleasure was worn out, and Mongan grew at first dispirited and then sullen, and after that as ill as he had been on the previous occasion.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	det	_	_
9	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	advmod	_	_
19	dispirited	dispirit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	sullen	sullen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	obl	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	cop	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear out** | past · passive |  | that pleasure |  |  | at the end of a time |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **grow** | past | Mongan |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dispirit** | participle | Mongan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past · perfect | feeling |  |  | the previous occasion |  |  | tree rules |

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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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