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title: Well it was odd, that here he should be in a thick wood he had never… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well it was odd, that here he should be in a thick wood he had never set eyes upon, turning Patrick Rooney upon a spit. Who acts: grin. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey! It's Burning Me Ye Are.", with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey! It's Burning Me Ye Are.", sentence 3

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Well it was odd, that here he should be in a thick wood he had never set eyes upon, turning Patrick Rooney upon a spit.

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**Who acts:** grin · **What happens:** be, not set, turn · **To what, where:** grandfather, thick wood, Patrick Rooney

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey! It's Burning Me Ye Are.". The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grin), 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:pg7885:28:3
# text = Well it was odd, that here he should be in a thick wood he had never set eyes upon, turning Patrick Rooney upon a spit.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
23	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Rooney	Rooney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	spit	spit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | grin |  |  |  |  | odd *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **set** | should · perfect · passive |  | grandfather |  | a thick wood; here |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in wood=Destination |
| 3 | **turn** | gerund |  | Patrick Rooney |  |  |  | upon a spit | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme rooney=Result |

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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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