Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 7

He thrust these under one arm and under the other he tucked a bundle of rushes for his bed, and with that one load he rushed up a house, well thatched and snug, and with the timber that remained over he made a bonfire on the floor of the house.

Who acts: Carl, timber · What happens: thrust, tuck, rush up, thatch, remain, make · To what, where: these, one arm, bundle, other, house, bonfire

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carl, timber), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thrust	nsubj
2	thrust	thrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 thrust	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 arm	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 arm	nummod
6	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thrust	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tucked	cc
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 other	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 other	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tucked	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tucked	nsubj
12	tucked	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thrust	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bundle	det
14	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tucked	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 rushes	case
16	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bundle	nmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 bed	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 bed	nmod:poss
19	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tucked	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 rushed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 rushed	cc
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 load	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 load	det
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 load	nummod
25	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rushed	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 rushed	nsubj
27	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thrust	parataxis
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 rushed	compound:prt
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 house	det
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rushed	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thatched	punct
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 thatched	advmod
33	thatched	thatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 rushed	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 snug	cc
35	snug	snug	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 thatched	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 timber	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 timber	cc
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 timber	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 timber	det
40	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thrust	parataxis
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 remained	nsubj
42	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 timber	acl:relcl
43	over	over	SCONJ	_	45 made	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 made	nsubj
45	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 remained	ccomp
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 bonfire	det
47	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 made	obj
48	on	on	ADP	_	50 floor	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 floor	det
50	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 made	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 house	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 house	det
53	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 floor	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thrust	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	thrust	past	Carl	these	one arm		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme
2	tuck	past	Carl	a bundle of rushes	the other	for Carl's bed	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme under other=Trajectory
3	rush up	past	Carl	a house		with that one load	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory
4	thatch	participle				well property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	remain	past	the timber				tree rules
6	make	past	Carl	a bonfire	the floor of the house		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bonfire=Product

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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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