---
title: Into the centre of the mess of blackberries he discharged a barrel o… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Into the centre of the mess of blackberries he discharged a barrel of meal, and be mixed the two up and through, and round and down, until the pile of white-black, red-brown slibber-slobber reached up to his shoulders. Who acts: Meal. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/55/15/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter VIII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/55/) / 15

# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 15

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Into the centre of the mess of blackberries he discharged a barrel of meal, and be mixed the two up and through, and round and down, until the pile of white-black, red-brown slibber-slobber reached up to his shoulders.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Meal · **What happens:** discharge, mix up, reach up, mess · **To what, where:** barrel, centre, two, black brown slibber slobber, blackberries

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Meal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:55:15
# text = Into the centre of the mess of blackberries he discharged a barrel of meal, and be mixed the two up and through, and round and down, until the pile of white-black, red-brown slibber-slobber reached up to his shoulders.
1	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	discharged	discharge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	through	through	ADV	RB	_	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	round	round	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	down	down	ADV	RB	_	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	until	until	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
34	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
38	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
41	slibber	slibber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	slobber	slobber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
44	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	acl	_	_
45	up	up	ADP	RP	_	44	compound:prt	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discharge** | past | Meal | a barrel of meal |  | the centre of the mess of blackberries |  | round *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barrel=Theme |
| 2 | **mix up** | infinitive · passive | Meal *not said here* | the two |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: two=Patient |
| 3 | **reach up** | participle |  | black brown slibber slobber *not said here* |  |  |  | to Meal's shoulders | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mess** |  |  | blackberries |  |  |  |  | nom mess «state transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/55/14/)
- next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/55/16/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter VIII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/55/)