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title: That was the end of the story, and when he had told it Mongan began… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That was the end of the story, and when he had told it Mongan began to laugh uproariously and called for more wine. Who acts: That, Branduv, story. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 38

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That was the end of the story, and when he had told it Mongan began to laugh uproariously and called for more wine.

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**Who acts:** That, Branduv, story · **What happens:** be, tell, begin, laugh, call · **To what, where:** end · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (That, Branduv, story), 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:pg2892:91:38
# text = That was the end of the story, and when he had told it Mongan began to laugh uproariously and called for more wine.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	uproariously	uproariously	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | That | the end |  |  |  | of the story | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | Branduv |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **begin** | past | story |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **laugh** | to-infinitive | story *not said here* |  |  |  |  | uproariously *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **call** | participle | story *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for more wine | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for wine=Recipient |

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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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