--- title: In the morning the servants came to waken the King of Leinster, and… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: In the morning the servants came to waken the King of Leinster, and when they saw the face of the hag lying on the pillow beside the king, and her nose all covered with whiskers, and her big foot and little foot sticking away out at the end of the bed, they began to laugh, and poke one another in th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/91/33/) [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 XX](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/91/) / 33 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 33 In the morning the servants came to waken the King of Leinster, and when they saw the face of the hag lying on the pillow beside the king, and her nose all covered with whiskers, and her big foot and little foot sticking away out at the end of the bed, they began to laugh, and poke one another in the stomachs and thump one another on the shoulders, so that the noise awakened the king, and he asked what was the matter with them at all. **Who acts:** servants, snoring, hag, little foot, noise, King · **What happens:** come, waken, see, lie, cover, stick away · **To what, where:** big foot, King, face, pillow, nose, end · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (servants, snoring, hag, little foot), 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:pg2892:91:33 # text = In the morning the servants came to waken the King of Leinster, and when they saw the face of the hag lying on the pillow beside the king, and her nose all covered with whiskers, and her big foot and little foot sticking away out at the end of the bed, they began to laugh, and poke one another in the stomachs and thump one another on the shoulders, so that the noise awakened the king, and he asked what was the matter with them at all. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 waken waken VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Leinster Leinster PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 hag hag NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 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obl _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 46 sticking stick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 45 acl _ _ 47 away away ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 48 out out ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 49 at at ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 52 of of ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 56 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 57 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 58 to to PART TO _ 59 mark _ _ 59 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 57 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 61 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 62 poke poke VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 63 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 62 obj _ _ 64 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 63 fixed _ _ 65 in in ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 67 stomachs stomach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 62 obl _ _ 68 and and CCONJ CC _ 69 cc _ _ 69 thump thump VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 62 conj _ _ 70 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 69 obj _ _ 71 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 70 fixed _ _ 72 on on ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 73 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 74 det _ _ 74 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 69 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 75 , , PUNCT , _ 80 punct _ _ 76 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 80 mark _ _ 77 that that SCONJ IN _ 76 fixed _ _ 78 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 79 det _ _ 79 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 80 nsubj _ _ 80 awakened awaken VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 81 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 82 det _ _ 82 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 80 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 83 , , PUNCT , _ 86 punct _ _ 84 and and CCONJ CC _ 86 cc _ _ 85 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 86 nsubj _ _ 86 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 87 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 86 ccomp _ _ 88 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 87 cop _ _ 89 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 90 det _ _ 90 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 87 nsubj _ _ 91 with with ADP IN _ 92 case _ _ 92 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 90 nmod _ _ 93 at at ADP IN _ 94 case _ _ 94 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 87 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 95 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the servants | servant's big foot and little foot | | | morning | | tree rules | | 2 | **waken** | to-infinitive | the servants *not said here* | the King of Leinster | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent king=Patient | | 3 | **see** | past | snoring | the face of the hag | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | | 4 | **lie** | gerund | the hag *not said here* | | | the pillow | | beside the king | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pillow=Location | | 5 | **cover** | participle · passive | | servant's nose | | | | with whiskers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with whisker=Theme | | 6 | **stick away** | gerund | little foot *not said here* | | | | at the end of the bed | away, out *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at end=Destination | | 7 | **begin** | past | snoring | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 8 | **laugh** | to-infinitive | snoring *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **poke** | infinitive | the servants *not said here* | one | | the stomachs | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 10 | **thump** | present | the servants *not said here* | one | | | | on the shoulders | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent one=Instrument on shoulder=Patient | | 11 | **awaken** | past | the noise | the king | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location king=Theme | | 12 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | King | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 13 | **is a** | past | the matter with snoring | | | all | | | tree rules | 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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/91/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/91/34/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XX](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/91/)