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title: There was a great feast going on there, and there was not a nobleman… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a great feast going on there, and there was not a nobleman or a gentleman in the kingdom but was gathered there, dressed in silk and satin, and gold and silver, and the night was as bright as the day with all the lamps and candles that were lit, and Guleesh had to shut his two eyes at the 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 80

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There was a great feast going on there, and there was not a nobleman or a gentleman in the kingdom but was gathered there, dressed in silk and satin, and gold and silver, and the night was as bright as the day with all the lamps and candles that were lit, and Guleesh had to shut his two eyes at the brightness.

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**Who acts:** great feast, night, Guleesh · **What happens:** be, go, not be, gather, dress, lit · **To what, where:** nobleman, silk, candles, two eyes, brightness

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great feast, night, Guleesh), 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:pg7885:4:80
# text = There was a great feast going on there, and there was not a nobleman or a gentleman in the kingdom but was gathered there, dressed in silk and satin, and gold and silver, and the night was as bright as the day with all the lamps and candles that were lit, and Guleesh had to shut his two eyes at the brightness.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	satin	satin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	as	as	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
44	as	as	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	50	det:predet	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	_
53	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	nsubj:pass	_	_
54	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux:pass	_	_
55	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
58	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
59	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
60	to	to	PART	TO	_	61	mark	_	_
61	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	xcomp	_	_
62	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
63	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	64	nummod	_	_
64	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	obj	_	_
65	at	at	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
66	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
67	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	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 | a great feast |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | a great feast *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on there=Location |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | past |  | a nobleman or a gentleman in the kingdom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **gather** | past · passive |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V» |
| 5 | **dress** | participle |  | a nobleman or a gentleman in the kingdom *not said here* |  | silk and satin |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | the night |  |  |  | day | bright *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **lit** | past · passive |  | candles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **have** | past | Guleesh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **shut** | to-infinitive | Guleesh *not said here* | GULEESH's two eyes |  | the brightness |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=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:** «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.

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