Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 77

So, while some were barring the gates, the young devil climbed up, and took down the flail that had the handstaff and booltheen both made out of red-hot iron.

Who acts: some, young devil, flail · What happens: bar, climb up, take down, have, make out · To what, where: gates, handstaff, hot iron

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some, young devil, flail), 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	So	so	ADV	_	13 climbed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 barring	mark
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 barring	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 barring	aux
6	barring	bar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 climbed	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gates	det
8	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 barring	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 barring	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 devil	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 devil	amod
12	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 climbed	nsubj
13	climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 climbed	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 took	cc
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 climbed	conj
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 took	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 flail	det
20	flail	flail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	nsubj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 flail	acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 handstaff	det
24	handstaff	handstaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 booltheen	cc
26	booltheen	booltheen	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 handstaff	conj
27	both	both	ADV	_	28 made	advmod
28	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 took	parataxis
29	out	out	ADP	_	34 iron	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 iron	case
31	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 hot	amod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 red	punct
33	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 iron	amod
34	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bar	past · progressive	some	the gates		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer gate=Theme
2	climb up	participle	the young devil			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take down	past	the young devil not said here			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	the flail	the handstaff and booltheen		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handstaff=Patient
5	make out	past	the flail	hot iron	both property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer iron=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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