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title: There were more there playing tricks, and more making fun and laughi… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There were more there playing tricks, and more making fun and laughing, for such a feast as there was that day had not been in France for twenty years, because the old king had no children alive but only the one daughter, and she was to be married to the son of another king that night. Who acts: old
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 84

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There were more there playing tricks, and more making fun and laughing, for such a feast as there was that day had not been in France for twenty years, because the old king had no children alive but only the one daughter, and she was to be married to the son of another king that night.

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**Who acts:** old king · **What happens:** be, play, make, laugh, not be, have · **To what, where:** tricks, fun, France, children, woman

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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 (old king), 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:pg7885:4:84
# text = There were more there playing tricks, and more making fun and laughing, for such a feast as there was that day had not been in France for twenty years, because the old king had no children alive but only the one daughter, and she was to be married to the son of another king that night.
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	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
5	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	18	det:predet	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	cop	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
38	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	39	det	_	_
39	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	only	only	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
48	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux:pass	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
51	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	aux:pass	_	_
52	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	conj	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	58	det	_	_
58	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	appos	_	_
59	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	60	det	_	_
60	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	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 |  |  |  | there; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | gerund |  | tricks |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | gerund |  | fun |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product |
| 4 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for such feast | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **be** | past |  |  |  | there | year |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **is** | past · perfect |  |  |  | France | day |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | past | the old king | no children |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 8 | **marry** | past · passive |  | woman |  |  |  | to the son | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to son=Co-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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