Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 14

You do not know how a stone sounds as it nips the ear with a whirling buzz, nor how jagged and heavy it feels as it thumps against a skinny leg.

Who acts: You, stone, hound, it · What happens: not know, sound, nip, whirl, feel, thump · To what, where: ear, skinny leg · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, stone, hound, it), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 sounds	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stone	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sounds	nsubj
8	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	ccomp
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 nips	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 nips	nsubj
11	nips	nip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sounds	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ear	det
13	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nips	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 buzz	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 buzz	det
16	whirling	whirl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 buzz	amod
17	buzz	buzz	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nips	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 jagged	punct
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	21 jagged	cc
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 jagged	advmod
21	jagged	jagged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 know	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 heavy	cc
23	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 jagged	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 feels	nsubj
25	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	parataxis
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 thumps	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 thumps	nsubj
28	thumps	thump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 feels	advcl
29	against	against	ADP	_	32 leg	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 leg	det
31	skinny	skinny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 leg	amod
32	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 thumps	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	You				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	sound	present	a stone				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	nip	present	hound	the ear		with a whirling buzz	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ear=Theme
4	whirl	gerund					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	feel	present	it				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	thump	present	hound		a skinny leg		vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against leg=Location

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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