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title: At the banquet which was then held he looked at her again, and every… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At the banquet which was then held he looked at her again, and every time he took a drink he toasted Ivell across the brim of his goblet, and in a little while she began to toast him back across the rim of her cup, for he was drinking ale, but she was drinking mead. Who acts: Branduv, Duv. A sentenc
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 6

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At the banquet which was then held he looked at her again, and every time he took a drink he toasted Ivell across the brim of his goblet, and in a little while she began to toast him back across the rim of her cup, for he was drinking ale, but she was drinking mead.

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**Who acts:** Branduv, Duv · **What happens:** hold, look, take, toast, begin, drink · **To what, where:** banquet, drink, Ivell, brim, toast, rim

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Branduv, Duv), 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:pg2892:91:6
# text = At the banquet which was then held he looked at her again, and every time he took a drink he toasted Ivell across the brim of his goblet, and in a little while she began to toast him back across the rim of her cup, for he was drinking ale, but she was drinking mead.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	toasted	toast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
23	Ivell	Ivell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	across	across	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	brim	brim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	goblet	goblet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obl	_	_
35	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	back	back	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
42	across	across	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	rim	rim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
53	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
56	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	52	conj	_	_
59	mead	mead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · passive |  | the banquet |  |  | then |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | Branduv |  |  |  | again | at Duv; at the banquet | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at banquet=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | Branduv | a drink |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme |
| 4 | **toast** | past | Branduv | Ivell |  | the brim of Branduv's goblet | time |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ivell=Patient |
| 5 | **begin** | past | Duv | toast |  | the rim of Duv's cup |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toast=Eventuality |
| 6 | **drink** | past · progressive | Branduv | ale |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ale=Patient |
| 7 | **drink** | past · progressive | Duv | mead |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mead=Patient |

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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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