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title: Oonagh went over, and putting into his hand a cake that had no gridd… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Oonagh went over, and putting into his hand a cake that had no griddle in it, Fin, whose appetite in the meantime had been sharpened by seeing eating going forward, soon swallowed it. Who acts: Oonagh, cake. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany, with its depende
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 105

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Oonagh went over, and putting into his hand a cake that had no griddle in it, Fin, whose appetite in the meantime had been sharpened by seeing eating going forward, soon swallowed it.

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**Who acts:** Oonagh, cake · **What happens:** go over, put, have, sharpen, see, eat · **To what, where:** Fin, cake, hand, griddle, appetite, meantime

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oonagh, cake), 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:pg7885:22:105
# text = Oonagh went over, and putting into his hand a cake that had no griddle in it, Fin, whose appetite in the meantime had been sharpened by seeing eating going forward, soon swallowed it.
1	Oonagh	Oonagh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	griddle	griddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Fin	Fin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	appetite	appetite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	sharpened	sharpen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
29	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
31	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	xcomp	_	_
32	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	xcomp	_	_
33	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
36	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go over** | past | Oonagh | Fin |  |  |  | over *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | gerund | Oonagh *not said here* | a cake |  | yell's hand |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cake=Goal |
| 3 | **have** | past | a cake | no griddle |  | hand |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent griddle=Patient |
| 4 | **sharpen** | past · perfect · passive |  | Fin's appetite *not said here* |  | the meantime |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
| 5 | **see** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **swallow** | past | Oonagh *not said here* | meantime |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:** «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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