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title: There were a hundred tables spread out, and their full of meat and d… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There were a hundred tables spread out, and their full of meat and drink on each table of them, flesh-meat, and cakes and sweetmeats, and wine and ale, and every drink that ever a man saw. Who acts: hundred tables, cakes. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maid
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 82

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There were a hundred tables spread out, and their full of meat and drink on each table of them, flesh-meat, and cakes and sweetmeats, and wine and ale, and every drink that ever a man saw.

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**Who acts:** hundred tables, cakes · **What happens:** be, spread out, saw · **To what, where:** hundred tables

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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 (hundred tables, cakes), 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:pg7885:4:82
# text = There were a hundred tables spread out, and their full of meat and drink on each table of them, flesh-meat, and cakes and sweetmeats, and wine and ale, and every drink that ever a man saw.
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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
27	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
39	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
40	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	43	advmod	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	saw	saw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	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 hundred tables |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spread out** | participle |  | a hundred tables *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **saw** |  | cakes and sweetmeats and wine and ale |  |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |

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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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