Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 8

There was no movement of his beloved hounds that he did not know; not a twitch or fling of the head, not a cock of the ears or tail that was not significant to him.

Who acts: movement, ears, head · What happens: be, not know, not be, move, fling · To what, where: twitch, movement, beloved hounds

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 (movement, ears, head), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 movement	det
4	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 hounds	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hounds	nmod:poss
7	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hounds	amod
8	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 movement	nmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 know	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 know	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 know	advmod
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 twitch	punct
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 twitch	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 twitch	det
17	twitch	twitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 know	obj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 fling	cc
19	fling	fling	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 twitch	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 head	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 head	det
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fling	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cock	punct
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 cock	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cock	det
26	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 twitch	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 ears	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ears	det
29	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 cock	nmod
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 tail	cc
31	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ears	conj
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 significant	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 significant	cop
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 significant	advmod
35	significant	significant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ears	acl:relcl
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 significant	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no movement of movement's beloved hounds			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not know	past · do-support	movement	a twitch or fling of the head and a cock of the ears or tail				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer twitch=Stimulus
3	not is	past	the ears or tail		movement		significant property	tree rules
4	move			movement's beloved hounds				nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient
5	fling		the head					nom fling «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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