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title: When he was coming into the bawn at dinner-time, what work did he fi… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When he was coming into the bawn at dinner-time, what work did he find Jack at but pulling armfuls of the thatch off the roof, and peeping into the holes he was making? Who acts: Churl, work. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 86

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When he was coming into the bawn at dinner-time, what work did he find Jack at but pulling armfuls of the thatch off the roof, and peeping into the holes he was making?

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**Who acts:** Churl, work · **What happens:** come, find, pull, peep, make · **To what, where:** bawn, Jack, armfuls, roof

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Churl, work), 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:pg7885:24:86
# text = When he was coming into the bawn at dinner-time, what work did he find Jack at but pulling armfuls of the thatch off the roof, and peeping into the holes he was making?
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bawn	bawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	14	det	_	_
14	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	obl	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
22	armfuls	armful	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	thatch	thatch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
31	peeping	peep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	csubj	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · progressive | Churl |  |  | the bawn | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into bawn=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **find** | past · do-support | what work | Jack |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Topic |
| 3 | **pull** | gerund | Churl *not said here* | armfuls of the thatch |  | the roof |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent armful=Theme off roof=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **peep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | into the holes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into hole=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | past · progressive | Churl |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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