Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 24

They had three crooked sticks of holly set up before the cave, and they were reeling yarn off these.

Who acts: daughters · What happens: have, set up, reel · To what, where: three crooked sticks, cave, yarn

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sticks	nummod
4	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sticks	amod
5	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 set	mark
7	holly	holly	ADV	_	8 set	advmod
8	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sticks	acl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 set	compound:prt
10	before	before	ADP	_	12 cave	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cave	det
12	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reeling	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 reeling	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reeling	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 reeling	aux
17	reeling	reel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 had	advcl
18	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reeling	obj
19	off	off	ADP	_	20 these	case
20	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 reeling	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	daughters = daughter	three crooked sticks			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient
2	set up	participle		three crooked sticks not said here	the cave	holly property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before cave=Destination
3	reel	past · progressive	daughters = daughter	yarn		off these	tree rules

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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