Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 6

Whenever a dog barked he would leap out of his seat, and he would throw everything that he owned out of the window in the direction of the bark.

Who acts: dog, man · What happens: bark, leap out, throw, own · To what, where: seat, everything, window

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, man), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 barked	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 barked	nsubj
4	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 leap	advcl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 leap	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 leap	aux
7	leap	leap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 seat	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 seat	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 seat	nmod:poss
11	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leap	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 throw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 throw	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 throw	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 throw	aux
16	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 leap	conj
17	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 throw	obj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 owned	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 owned	nsubj
20	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 throw	advcl
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 window	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 window	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 window	det
24	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 owned	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 direction	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 direction	det
27	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 owned	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 bark	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bark	det
30	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 direction	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 leap	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bark	past	a dog			whenever property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leap out	would	man	man's seat			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme seat=Trajectory
3	throw	would	man	everything			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
4	own	past	man		the window	in the direction of the bark	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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