Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 27

The dog’s nose lay along his breast under his chin, and as he gave it dutiful hugs, one hug to every five paces, the dog put out its tongue and licked him timidly under the chin.

Who acts: nose · What happens: give, put out, lick · To what, where: breast, tongue, nose, chin

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nose), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nose	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 dog	case
4	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	nsubj
5	lay	lay	ADV	_	8 breast	advmod
6	along	along	ADP	_	8 breast	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 breast	nmod:poss
8	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nose	nmod
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 chin	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 chin	nmod:poss
11	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 breast	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gave	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 gave	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	obj
18	dutiful	dutiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hugs	amod
19	hugs	hug	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gave	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hug	punct
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 hug	nummod
22	hug	hug	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hugs	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 paces	case
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 paces	det
25	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 paces	nummod
26	paces	pace	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hug	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dog	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dog	det
29	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hugs	conj
30	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 gave	advcl
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 put	compound:prt
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 tongue	nmod:poss
33	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 put	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 licked	cc
35	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gave	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 licked	obj
37	timidly	timidly	ADV	_	35 licked	advmod
38	under	under	ADP	_	40 chin	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 chin	det
40	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 licked	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	the dog's nose along nose's breast under nose's chin	breast			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient hug=Theme
2	put out	infinitive	the dog's nose along nose's breast under nose's chin not said here	breast's tongue			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent tongue=Goal
3	lick	past	the dog's nose along nose's breast under nose's chin not said here	nose	the chin	timidly property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent he=Source

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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