Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 49

Soon they had four poles up and a pole across, right over the fire, for all the world like a spit, and on to the pole they slung Patrick Rooney.

Who acts: tinder · What happens: have, sling · To what, where: four poles, Patrick, pole

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 (tinder), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 had	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 poles	nummod
5	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 poles	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pole	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pole	det
9	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	conj
10	across	across	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fire	punct
12	right	right	ADV	_	15 fire	advmod
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 fire	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 world	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 world	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 world	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fire	conj
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 spit	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 spit	det
23	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 world	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 slung	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 slung	cc
26	on	on	ADV	_	29 pole	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 pole	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pole	det
29	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 slung	obl
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 slung	nsubj
31	slung	sling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
32	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 slung	obj
33	Rooney	Rooney	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Patrick	flat
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	tinder	four poles				across, soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Patient
2	sling	past	tinder	Patrick		the pole			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent patrick=Theme to pole=Destination

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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