Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 82

There were a hundred tables spread out, and their full of meat and drink on each table of them, flesh-meat, and cakes and sweetmeats, and wine and ale, and every drink that ever a man saw.

Who acts: hundred tables, cakes · What happens: be, spread out, saw · To what, where: hundred tables

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundred tables, cakes), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tables	det
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 tables	nummod
5	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
6	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tables	acl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 spread	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 full	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 full	cc
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 full	nmod:poss
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 were	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 meat	case
13	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 full	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 drink	cc
15	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 meat	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 table	case
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 table	det
18	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drink	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 table	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 meat	punct
22	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 meat	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 flesh	punct
24	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 meat	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 saw	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 saw	cc
27	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 saw	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sweetmeats	cc
29	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 cakes	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 wine	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 wine	cc
32	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cakes	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 ale	cc
34	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wine	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 drink	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 drink	cc
37	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	38 drink	det
38	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 saw	nsubj
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 saw	nsubj
40	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	43 saw	advmod
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 saw	det
42	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 saw	compound
43	saw	saw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	parataxis
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	past	a hundred tables		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spread out	participle		a hundred tables not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	saw		cakes and sweetmeats and wine and ale			ever	tree rules

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: «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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