Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 50

But, as the banquet proceeded, Goll gave, whether it was to harpers or prophets or jugglers, more than any one else gave, so that Fionn became displeased, and as the banquet proceeded he grew stern and silent.

Who acts: banquet, Goll, harpers, Fionn · What happens: proceed, give, be, become, displease, grow

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (banquet, Goll, harpers, Fionn), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 But	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 proceeded	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 banquet	det
5	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proceeded	nsubj
6	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gave	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 proceeded	punct
8	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 gave	nsubj
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 harpers	punct
11	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	15 harpers	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 harpers	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 harpers	cop
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 harpers	case
15	harpers	harper	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 gave	nsubj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 prophets	cc
17	prophets	prophet	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 harpers	conj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 jugglers	cc
19	jugglers	juggler	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 prophets	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 more	punct
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 harpers	conj
22	than	than	ADP	_	24 one	case
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 more	obl
25	else	else	ADV	_	24 one	advmod
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gave	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 became	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	31 became	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 became	nsubj
31	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 gave	conj
32	displeased	displease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 became	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 proceeded	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 proceeded	cc
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 proceeded	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 banquet	det
37	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 proceeded	nsubj
38	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gave	conj
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 grew	nsubj
40	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 proceeded	conj
41	stern	stern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 grew	xcomp
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 silent	cc
43	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 stern	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	proceed	past	the banquet		vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	Goll		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	banquet	to harpers or prophets or jugglers	tree rules
4	be		banquet not said here	than any one	tree rules
5	give	past	harpers or prophets or jugglers		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	become	past	Fionn		tree rules
7	displease	participle	Fionn not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	proceed	past	the banquet		vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
9	grow	past	Fionn	stern property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

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