--- title: She then made a high smoke on the top of the hill, after which she p… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: She then made a high smoke on the top of the hill, after which she put her finger in her mouth, and gave three whistles, and by that Cucullin knew he was invited to Cullamore--for this was the way that the Irish long ago gave a sign to all strangers and travellers, to let them know they were welcome --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/22/38/) [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/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [A Legend of Knockmany](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/22/) / 38 # Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 38 She then made a high smoke on the top of the hill, after which she put her finger in her mouth, and gave three whistles, and by that Cucullin knew he was invited to Cullamore--for this was the way that the Irish long ago gave a sign to all strangers and travellers, to let them know they were welcome to come and take share of whatever was going. **Who acts:** bully, this, whistles · **What happens:** make, put, give, know, invite, be · **To what, where:** high smoke, top, finger, mouth, three whistles, Oonagh · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (bully, this, whistles), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7885:22:38 # text = She then made a high smoke on the top of the hill, after which she put her finger in her mouth, and gave three whistles, and by that Cucullin knew he was invited to Cullamore--for this was the way that the Irish long ago gave a sign to all strangers and travellers, to let them know they were welcome to come and take share of whatever was going. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 after after ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 obl _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 whistles whistle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 32 Cucullin Cucullin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 33 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 invited invite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 ccomp _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Cullamore Cullamore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 -- -- PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 for for ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 41 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 44 nsubj _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 45 that that SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 acl _ _ 48 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 50 advmod _ _ 49 ago ago ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 50 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 advcl _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obj _ _ 53 to to ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 55 det _ _ 55 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 nmod _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 57 travellers traveller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 59 to to PART TO _ 60 mark _ _ 60 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 50 conj _ _ 61 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 60 obj _ _ 62 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 60 xcomp _ _ 63 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 65 nsubj _ _ 64 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 65 cop _ _ 65 welcome welcome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 ccomp _ _ 66 to to PART TO _ 67 mark _ _ 67 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 65 xcomp _ _ 68 and and CCONJ CC _ 69 cc _ _ 69 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 67 conj _ _ 70 share share NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 obj _ _ 71 of of ADP IN _ 72 case _ _ 72 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 70 nmod _ _ 73 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 74 aux _ _ 74 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 72 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 75 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | bully | a high smoke | | the top of the hill | then | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smoke=Product | | 2 | **put** | past | bully | bully's finger | | bully's mouth | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme in mouth=Destination | | 3 | **give** | past | bully *not said here* | three whistles | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whistle=Theme | | 4 | **know** | past | | | | | | by that Cucullin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **invite** | past · passive | | Oonagh | Cullamore | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | | 6 | **is** | past | this | | | | | for the way | tree rules | | 7 | **give** | past | this *not said here* | a sign | all strangers and travellers | | | ago, long *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sign=Theme to stranger=Recipient | | 8 | **let** | to-infinitive | this *not said here* | whistles *= whistle* | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **know** | infinitive | whistles *= whistle* *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 10 | **is** | past | whistles *= whistle* | | | | | welcome *property* | tree rules | | 11 | **come** | to-infinitive | whistles *= whistle* *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 12 | **take** | infinitive | whistles *= whistle* *not said here* | share of whatever | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme | | 13 | **go** | past · progressive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 14 | **share** | | | whatever | | | | | nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/22/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/22/39/) - ↑ back to [A Legend of Knockmany](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/22/)