--- title: The noise of the banquet was not now audible to Fionn--it is possibl… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The noise of the banquet was not now audible to Fionn--it is possible, however, that there was a shamefaced silence in the great hall--and the lights of the city were hidden by the successive great ramparts. Who acts: noise, shamefaced silence, successive great ramparts, banquet. A sentence of «Iris --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/26/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter XIII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/26/) / 3 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 3 The noise of the banquet was not now audible to Fionn--it is possible, however, that there was a shamefaced silence in the great hall--and the lights of the city were hidden by the successive great ramparts. **Who acts:** noise, shamefaced silence, successive great ramparts, banquet · **What happens:** not be, be, shamefac, hide, noise, light · **To what, where:** Fionn, lights, city This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, shamefaced silence, successive great ramparts, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:26:3 # text = The noise of the banquet was not now audible to Fionn--it is possible, however, that there was a shamefaced silence in the great hall--and the lights of the city were hidden by the successive great ramparts. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 banquet banquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 8 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 9 audible audible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Fionn Fionn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 -- -- PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 however however ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 21 expl _ _ 21 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 shamefaced shamefac VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 24 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 -- -- PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 38 by by ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 40 successive successive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 41 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 ramparts rampart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | past | the noise of the banquet | | Fionn | | now | audible *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | noise | | | | | however, possible *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | past | a shamefaced silence in the great hall | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **shamefac** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hide** | past · passive | the successive great ramparts | the lights of the city | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 6 | **noise** | | the banquet | | | | | | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent | | 7 | **light** | | | the city | | | | | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/26/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/26/4/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XIII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/26/)