Celtic Fairy Tales, "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey! It's Burning Me Ye Are.", sentence 3

Well it was odd, that here he should be in a thick wood he had never set eyes upon, turning Patrick Rooney upon a spit.

Who acts: grin · What happens: be, not set, turn · To what, where: grandfather, thick wood, Patrick Rooney

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey! It's Burning Me Ye Are.". The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grin), 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 odd	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 odd	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 odd	cop
4	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 eyes	punct
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 eyes	mark
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 set	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 set	nsubj:pass
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 set	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 set	aux:pass
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 wood	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wood	det
13	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wood	amod
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 set	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 set	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 set	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 set	advmod
18	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 eyes	amod
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 odd	parataxis
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 eyes	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 turning	punct
22	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 odd	parataxis
23	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Rooney	compound
24	Rooney	Rooney	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 turning	obj
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 spit	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 spit	det
27	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turning	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 odd	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	grin			odd property	tree rules
2	not set	should · perfect · passive		grandfather	a thick wood; here		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in wood=Destination
3	turn	gerund		Patrick Rooney		upon a spit	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme rooney=Result

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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