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title: Children having baskets piled with red apples, and old women who ped… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Children having baskets piled with red apples, and old women who peddled shell-fish and boiled lobsters. Who acts: Children, old women. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 14

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Children having baskets piled with red apples, and old women who peddled shell-fish and boiled lobsters.

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**Who acts:** Children, old women · **What happens:** have, pile, peddle, boil · **To what, where:** baskets, shell fish

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

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**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:pg2892:85:14
# text = Children having baskets piled with red apples, and old women who peddled shell-fish and boiled lobsters.
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	baskets	basket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	piled	pile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	peddled	peddle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	lobsters	lobster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | Children and old women and boiled lobsters *not said here* | baskets |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Patient |
| 2 | **pile** | participle |  | baskets *not said here* |  |  |  | with red apples | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with apple=Theme |
| 3 | **peddle** | past | old women | shell fish |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 4 | **boil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**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.

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