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title: He grew bolder then, and drank the full of a thimble of it, and then… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He grew bolder then, and drank the full of a thimble of it, and then as much again, and he never stopped till he had half the cup drunk. Who acts: herb. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 37

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He grew bolder then, and drank the full of a thimble of it, and then as much again, and he never stopped till he had half the cup drunk.

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**Who acts:** herb · **What happens:** grow, drink, not stop, have · **To what, where:** full, cup drunk

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herb), 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:pg7885:6:37
# text = He grew bolder then, and drank the full of a thimble of it, and then as much again, and he never stopped till he had half the cup drunk.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bolder	bold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	thimble	thimble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
29	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	32	det:predet	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	drunk	drunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | herb |  |  |  | then | bold *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drink** | past | herb *not said here* | the full |  |  | again |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent full=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **stop** | past | herb |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **have** | past | herb | half cup drunk |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drunk=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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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