--- title: But, as the banquet proceeded, Goll gave, whether it was to harpers… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But, as the banquet proceeded, Goll gave, whether it was to harpers or prophets or jugglers, more than any one else gave, so that Fionn became displeased, and as the banquet proceeded he grew stern and silent. Who acts: banquet, Goll, harpers, Fionn. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/45/50/) [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/) / 50 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 50 But, as the banquet proceeded, Goll gave, whether it was to harpers or prophets or jugglers, more than any one else gave, so that Fionn became displeased, and as the banquet proceeded he grew stern and silent. **Who acts:** banquet, Goll, harpers, Fionn · **What happens:** proceed, give, be, become, displease, grow 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 (banquet, Goll, harpers, Fionn), 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:pg2892:45:50 # text = But, as the banquet proceeded, Goll gave, whether it was to harpers or prophets or jugglers, more than any one else gave, so that Fionn became displeased, and as the banquet proceeded he grew stern and silent. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 banquet banquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 proceeded proceed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 Goll Goll PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 harpers harper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 prophets prophet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 jugglers juggler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 conj _ _ 22 than than ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 else else ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 31 mark _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 fixed _ _ 30 Fionn Fionn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 32 displeased displease VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 banquet banquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 proceeded proceed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 41 stern stern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **proceed** | past | the banquet | | | | | | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **give** | past | Goll | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is** | past | banquet | | | | | to harpers or prophets or jugglers | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | banquet *not said here* | | | | | than any one | tree rules | | 5 | **give** | past | harpers or prophets or jugglers | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **become** | past | Fionn | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **displease** | participle | Fionn *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **proceed** | past | the banquet | | | | | | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **grow** | past | Fionn | | | | | stern *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/45/49/) - next →: [Chapter II, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/46/1/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/45/)