--- title: Three days the feast was going on, and the third night she was to be… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Three days the feast was going on, and the third night she was to be married, and that was the night that Guleesh and the sheehogues came, hoping, if they could, to carry off with them the king's young daughter. Who acts: feast, that, Guleesh. 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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 (feast, that, Guleesh), 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:pg7885:4:85 # text = Three days the feast was going on, and the third night she was to be married, and that was the night that Guleesh and the sheehogues came, hoping, if they could, to carry off with them the king's young daughter. 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 on on ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 amod _ _ 12 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 obl _ _ 25 Guleesh Guleesh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 sheehogues sheehogue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 29 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 hoping hope VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 39 off off ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 44 's 's PART POS _ 43 case _ _ 45 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go on** | past · progressive | the feast | | | | day | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **marry** | past · passive | | the third night | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | past | that | the night | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **come** | past | Guleesh and the sheehogues | that | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hope** | gerund | Guleesh and the sheehogues *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **carry off** | could | Guleesh and the sheehogues *not said here* | the king's young daughter | | | | with sheehogues *= sheehogue* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/4/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/4/86/) - ↑ back to [Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/4/)