Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 53

Then they brought her food, and she ate with a good appetite, and was merry and joyous, and never left off talking with the priest while she was eating.

Who acts: satisfaction, lady · What happens: bring, eat, be, not leave off, talk · To what, where: food

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (satisfaction, lady), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 brought	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 food	nmod:poss
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ate	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ate	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ate	nsubj
9	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 appetite	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 appetite	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 appetite	amod
13	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ate	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 merry	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 merry	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 merry	cop
17	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ate	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 joyous	cc
19	joyous	joyous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 merry	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 left	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 left	cc
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 left	advmod
23	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 brought	conj
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 left	compound:prt
25	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 left	advcl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 priest	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 priest	det
28	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 talking	obl
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 eating	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 eating	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 eating	aux
32	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 talking	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	satisfaction	lady's food	then		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme
2	eat	past	lady			with a good appetite	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past				merry property	tree rules
4	be						tree rules
5	not leave off	participle	satisfaction not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	talk	gerund	satisfaction not said here			with the priest	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with priest=Co-Agent
7	eat	past · progressive	lady				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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