Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 32

And at that the dog gave little wriggles in his arms, and little barks, and little licks, so that he could scarcely hold her.

Who acts: dog · What happens: give, hold · To what, where: little wriggles, arms, animal

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 (dog), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 gave	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 dog	case
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 at	fixed
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wriggles	amod
8	wriggles	wriggle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gave	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 arms	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 arms	nmod:poss
11	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gave	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 barks	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 barks	cc
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 barks	amod
15	barks	bark	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gave	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 licks	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 licks	cc
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 licks	amod
19	licks	lick	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gave	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hold	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 hold	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 so	fixed
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hold	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 hold	aux
25	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	26 hold	advmod
26	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 gave	parataxis
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hold	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the dog	little wriggles		dog's arms		little barks obl; little licks obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wriggle=Theme
2	hold	could	dog	animal				scarcely property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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