Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 27

In the evening a feast was prepared, and when they had eaten well there was a banquet.

Who acts: feast, Mongan, banquet · What happens: be, eat

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feast, Mongan, banquet), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prepared	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 feast	det
5	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prepared	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 prepared	cop
7	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eaten	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 eaten	cc
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 eaten	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eaten	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 eaten	aux
13	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 prepared	parataxis
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 eaten	advmod
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 was	expl
16	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 eaten	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 banquet	det
18	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 was	nsubj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	a feast		evening	prepared property	tree rules
2	eat	past · perfect	Mongan			well property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be	past	a banquet	there			vn exist-47.1 «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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