Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 6

At the banquet which was then held he looked at her again, and every time he took a drink he toasted Ivell across the brim of his goblet, and in a little while she began to toast him back across the rim of her cup, for he was drinking ale, but she was drinking mead.

Who acts: Branduv, Duv · What happens: hold, look, take, toast, begin, drink · To what, where: banquet, drink, Ivell, brim, toast, rim

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 (Branduv, Duv), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 banquet	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 banquet	det
3	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	obl
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 held	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 held	aux:pass
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 held	advmod
7	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 banquet	acl:relcl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looked	obl
12	again	again	ADV	_	9 looked	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 toasted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 toasted	cc
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 toasted	obl:unmarked
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 took	nsubj
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 time	acl:relcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 drink	det
20	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 toasted	nsubj
22	toasted	toast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 looked	conj
23	Ivell	Ivell	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 toasted	obj
24	across	across	ADP	_	26 brim	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 brim	det
26	brim	brim	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 toasted	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 goblet	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 goblet	nmod:poss
29	goblet	goblet	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 brim	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 began	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 began	cc
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 little	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 little	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 and	obl
35	while	while	SCONJ	_	37 began	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 began	nsubj
37	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 looked	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 toast	mark
39	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 began	obj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 toast	obj
41	back	back	ADV	_	37 began	advmod
42	across	across	ADP	_	44 rim	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 rim	det
44	rim	rim	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 began	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 cup	case
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 cup	nmod:poss
47	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 rim	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 drinking	punct
49	for	for	SCONJ	_	52 drinking	mark
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 drinking	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 drinking	aux
52	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 began	advcl
53	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 drinking	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 drinking	punct
55	but	but	CCONJ	_	58 drinking	cc
56	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 drinking	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 drinking	aux
58	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	52 drinking	conj
59	mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 drinking	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past · passive		the banquet		then		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	look	past	Branduv			again	at Duv; at the banquet	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at banquet=Theme
3	take	past	Branduv	a drink				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme
4	toast	past	Branduv	Ivell	the brim of Branduv's goblet	time		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ivell=Patient
5	begin	past	Duv	toast	the rim of Duv's cup			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toast=Eventuality
6	drink	past · progressive	Branduv	ale				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ale=Patient
7	drink	past · progressive	Duv	mead				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mead=Patient

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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