Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 86

When he was coming into the bawn at dinner-time, what work did he find Jack at but pulling armfuls of the thatch off the roof, and peeping into the holes he was making?

Who acts: Churl, work · What happens: come, find, pull, peep, make · To what, where: bawn, Jack, armfuls, roof

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Churl, work), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 coming	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 coming	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 coming	aux
4	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 making	advcl
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 bawn	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bawn	det
7	bawn	bawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coming	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 time	case
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 time	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 dinner	punct
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coming	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 find	punct
13	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	14 work	det
14	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 find	aux
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 find	nsubj
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 time	acl:relcl
18	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 find	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	17 find	obl
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 pulling	cc
21	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 coming	conj
22	armfuls	armful	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 pulling	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 thatch	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 thatch	det
25	thatch	thatch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 armfuls	nmod
26	off	off	ADP	_	28 roof	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 roof	det
28	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pulling	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 making	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 making	cc
31	peeping	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 making	csubj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 holes	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 holes	det
34	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 peeping	obl
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 making	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 making	aux
37	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	37 making	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · progressive	Churl		the bawn	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bawn=Initial_Location
2	find	past · do-support	what work	Jack				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Topic
3	pull	gerund	Churl not said here	armfuls of the thatch	the roof			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent armful=Theme off roof=Initial_Location
4	peep	gerund					into the holes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into hole=Theme
5	make	past · progressive	Churl					vn build-26.1-1 «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.

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