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title: After that they all got drunk and merry, and soon there was a great… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After that they all got drunk and merry, and soon there was a great snoring and snorting, and very soon all the servants fell asleep also, so that Mongan could not get anything to drink. Who acts: kisses, great snoring, servants, Mongan. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 30

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After that they all got drunk and merry, and soon there was a great snoring and snorting, and very soon all the servants fell asleep also, so that Mongan could not get anything to drink.

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**Who acts:** kisses, great snoring, servants, Mongan, anything · **What happens:** get, be, fall, not get, drink · **To what, where:** anything

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kisses, great snoring, servants, Mongan), 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:pg2892:91:30
# text = After that they all got drunk and merry, and soon there was a great snoring and snorting, and very soon all the servants fell asleep also, so that Mongan could not get anything to drink.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	snoring	snoring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	snorting	snorting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	35	mark	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
36	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	35	obj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | kisses *= kiss* |  |  |  | after that | drunk *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **be** | past | a great snoring and snorting |  |  | there |  | soon *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past | all servants |  |  |  |  | asleep, soon *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **get** | could | Mongan | anything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **drink** | to-infinitive | anything *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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