Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 47

Well, one gathered brushwood, and another took out tinder and flint, and soon they had a big fire roaring, and my grandfather could see Patrick plainly enough.

Who acts: one, another, tinder, big fire, grandfather · What happens: gather, take out, have, roar, see · To what, where: brushwood, tinder, big fire, Patrick

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, another, tinder, big fire), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 gathered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 gathered	nsubj
4	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	brushwood	brushwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gathered	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 took	cc
8	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gathered	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 took	compound:prt
11	tinder	tinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 flint	cc
13	flint	flint	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tinder	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 had	cc
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 had	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 fire	det
20	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fire	amod
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
22	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 fire	acl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 see	cc
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 grandfather	nmod:poss
26	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 see	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 see	aux
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 had	conj
29	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 see	obj
30	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	28 see	advmod
31	enough	enough	ADV	_	28 see	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gather	past	one	brushwood		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brushwood=Theme
2	take out	past	another	tinder and flint		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tinder=Theme
3	have	past	tinder	a big fire	soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient
4	roar	gerund	a big fire not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	could	my grandfather	Patrick	enough, plainly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer patrick=Stimulus

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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