--- title: They made a hearty breakfast on what was left the night before, and… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They made a hearty breakfast on what was left the night before, and then they all agreed to set off to the castle of the Lord of Dunlavin, and give him back all his gold and silver. Who acts: comrades. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (comrades), 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:pg7885:18:92 # text = They made a hearty breakfast on what was left the night before, and then they all agreed to set off to the castle of the Lord of Dunlavin, and give him back all his gold and silver. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 hearty hearty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 on on SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 before before ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 18 agreed agree VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 off off ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Dunlavin Dunlavin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 iobj _ _ 34 back back ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 35 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 37 det:predet _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | comrades *= comrade* | a hearty breakfast | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset breakfast=Product | | 2 | **leave** | past · passive | | | | | night | before *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | comrades *= comrade* | | | | then | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **set off** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | comrades *= comrade* *not said here* | | | the castle of the Lord of Dunlavin | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **give back** | infinitive | | Dunlavin's gold and silver | Dunlavin | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient gold=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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/93/) - ↑ back to [Jack and His Comrades](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/)