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title: The wonderful gift-giving of Goll continued, and an uneasiness and e… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The wonderful gift-giving of Goll continued, and an uneasiness and embarrassment began to creep through the great banqueting hall. Who acts: Goll, uneasiness. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 3

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The wonderful gift-giving of Goll continued, and an uneasiness and embarrassment began to creep through the great banqueting hall.

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**Who acts:** Goll, uneasiness · **What happens:** give, continue, begin, creep · **To what, where:** great banqueting hall

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goll, uneasiness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2892:46:3
# text = The wonderful gift-giving of Goll continued, and an uneasiness and embarrassment began to creep through the great banqueting hall.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	uneasiness	uneasiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	embarrassment	embarrassment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	creep	creep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	banqueting	banqueting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **continue** | past | Goll |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | a uneasiness and embarrassment |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **creep** | to-infinitive | a uneasiness and embarrassment *not said here* |  |  | the great banqueting hall |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hall=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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.

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