--- title: After good eating, good conversation; and after good conversation, s… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: After good eating, good conversation; and after good conversation, sleep--that is the order of a banquet: so when each person had been served with food to the limit of desire the butlers carried in shining, and jewelled drinking-horns, each having its tide of smooth, heady liquor. Who acts: that, bu --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/45/29/) [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 I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/45/) / 29 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 29 After good eating, good conversation; and after good conversation, sleep--that is the order of a banquet: so when each person had been served with food to the limit of desire the butlers carried in shining, and jewelled drinking-horns, each having its tide of smooth, heady liquor. **Who acts:** that, butlers, each, smooth heady liquor · **What happens:** be, serve, carry, shine, jewell, have · **To what, where:** order, person, limit, drinking horns, tide This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, butlers, each, smooth heady liquor), 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:pg2892:45:29 # text = After good eating, good conversation; and after good conversation, sleep--that is the order of a banquet: so when each person had been served with food to the limit of desire the butlers carried in shining, and jewelled drinking-horns, each having its tide of smooth, heady liquor. 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 eating eating NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 conversation conversation NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 after after ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 conversation conversation NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 -- -- PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 banquet banquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 25 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 served serve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 limit limit NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 butlers butler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 40 in in SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 41 shining shine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 jewelled jewell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 45 drinking drinking NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 49 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 50 nsubj _ _ 50 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 44 advcl _ _ 51 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 52 tide tide NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obj _ _ 53 of of ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 54 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 56 heady heady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 57 liquor liquor NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | that | the order | | | | of a banquet | tree rules | | 2 | **serve** | past · perfect · passive | | each person | | | | with food | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with food=Theme | | 3 | **carry** | past | the butlers | | | the limit of desire | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to limit=Destination | | 4 | **shine** | gerund | the butlers *not said here* | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **jewell** | past | the butlers *not said here* | drinking horns | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **have** | gerund | each | person's tide of smooth heady liquor | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tide=Patient | | 7 | **tide** | | smooth heady liquor | | | | | | nom tide «event intransitive»: of=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:** «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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/45/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/45/30/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/45/)