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title: So, while some were barring the gates, the young devil climbed up, a… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So, while some were barring the gates, the young devil climbed up, and took down the flail that had the handstaff and booltheen both made out of red-hot iron. Who acts: some, young devil, flail. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin, with its dependency tree
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 77

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So, while some were barring the gates, the young devil climbed up, and took down the flail that had the handstaff and booltheen both made out of red-hot iron.

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**Who acts:** some, young devil, flail · **What happens:** bar, climb up, take down, have, make out · **To what, where:** gates, handstaff, hot iron

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some, young devil, flail), 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:pg7885:33:77
# text = So, while some were barring the gates, the young devil climbed up, and took down the flail that had the handstaff and booltheen both made out of red-hot iron.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	barring	bar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	climbed	climb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	flail	flail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	handstaff	handstaff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	booltheen	booltheen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	both	both	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bar** | past · progressive | some | the gates |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer gate=Theme |
| 2 | **climb up** | participle | the young devil |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take down** | past | the young devil *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | past | the flail | the handstaff and booltheen |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handstaff=Patient |
| 5 | **make out** | past | the flail | hot iron |  |  |  | both *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer iron=Stimulus |

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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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