Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 60

Then he sat and he kept the fire even, and he kept the spit turning, and all the while Patrick looked at him.

Who acts: Patrick, spit · What happens: sit, keep, turn, look · To what, where: fire, spit

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 (Patrick, spit), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kept	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obj
9	even	even	ADV	_	6 kept	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 kept	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kept	nsubj
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 spit	det
15	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kept	obj
16	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 spit	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 looked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 looked	cc
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 looked	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 looked	det
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 looked	mark
22	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 looked	nsubj
23	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 looked	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Patrick		then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	past	Patrick	the fire			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
3	keep	past	Patrick	the spit			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spit=Theme
4	turn	gerund	the spit not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	look	past	Patrick			at fire	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme

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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