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title: There were seven vats of wine, and as Mongan loved wine he was very… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There were seven vats of wine, and as Mongan loved wine he was very happy, and he drank more on that occasion than any one had ever noticed him to drink before. Who acts: seven vats, Mongan, banquet. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 28

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There were seven vats of wine, and as Mongan loved wine he was very happy, and he drank more on that occasion than any one had ever noticed him to drink before.

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**Who acts:** seven vats, Mongan, banquet · **What happens:** be, love, drink, notice · **To what, where:** wine, banquet, occasion

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven vats, Mongan, banquet), 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:pg2892:75:28
# text = There were seven vats of wine, and as Mongan loved wine he was very happy, and he drank more on that occasion than any one had ever noticed him to drink before.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	vats	vat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	30	advmod	_	_
30	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	parataxis	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
34	before	before	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | seven vats of wine |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **love** | past | Mongan | wine |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wine=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | banquet | wine *not said here* |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **drink** | past | banquet |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **notice** | past · perfect |  | banquet |  | that occasion | ever | than any one | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 6 | **drink** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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