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title: He returned home to his wife, and they set in order a feast; and tha… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He returned home to his wife, and they set in order a feast; and that was a feast if ever there was one, oh son and brother. Who acts: Conall, gold, that, one son. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 210

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He returned home to his wife, and they set in order a feast; and that was a feast if ever there was one, oh son and brother.

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**Who acts:** Conall, gold, that, one son · **What happens:** return, set, be · **To what, where:** feast, order

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conall, gold, that, one son), 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:pg7885:9:210
# text = He returned home to his wife, and they set in order a feast; and that was a feast if ever there was one, oh son and brother.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	advmod	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
28	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | Conall |  |  |  |  | to Conall's wife *result*; home *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to wife=Result |
| 2 | **set** | present | gold | a feast |  | order |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent feast=Theme in order=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | past | that | a feast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | one son and brother |  |  | there | ever |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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