Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 84

There were more there playing tricks, and more making fun and laughing, for such a feast as there was that day had not been in France for twenty years, because the old king had no children alive but only the one daughter, and she was to be married to the son of another king that night.

Who acts: old king · What happens: be, play, make, laugh, not be, have · To what, where: tricks, fun, France, children, woman

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 (old king), 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	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 there	advmod
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 were	advmod
5	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 were	advcl
6	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 playing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 making	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 making	cc
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 making	amod
10	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 were	advcl
11	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 making	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 laughing	cc
13	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 making	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 feast	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 feast	case
16	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	18 feast	det:predet
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 feast	det
18	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laughing	obl
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 was	mark
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 was	expl
21	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 feast	advcl
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 day	det
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 France	obl:unmarked
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 France	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 France	advmod
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 France	cop
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 France	case
28	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 was	obl
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 years	case
30	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 years	nummod
31	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 was	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
33	because	because	SCONJ	_	37 had	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 king	det
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 king	amod
36	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 making	parataxis
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 children	det
39	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 had	obj
40	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 had	xcomp
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 daughter	cc
42	only	only	ADV	_	45 daughter	advmod
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 daughter	det
44	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 daughter	nummod
45	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 alive	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 married	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 married	cc
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 married	nsubj:pass
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 married	aux:pass
50	to	to	PART	_	52 married	mark
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 married	aux:pass
52	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 had	conj
53	to	to	ADP	_	55 son	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 son	det
55	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 married	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 king	case
57	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	58 king	det
58	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 son	appos
59	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	60 night	det
60	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 king	nmod:unmarked
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past			there; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	play	gerund		tricks				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme
3	make	gerund		fun				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product
4	laugh	gerund					for such feast	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	be	past			there	year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not is	past · perfect			France	day		tree rules
7	have	past	the old king	no children			alive property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
8	marry	past · passive		woman			to the son	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to son=Co-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: «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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