Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 12

Nor did they fight in silence as was their custom and training, but between each onslaught the great heads were uplifted, and they pealed loudly, mournfully, urgently, for their master.

Who acts: Nor, hounds · What happens: fight, be, uplift, peal · To what, where: silence, great heads

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nor, hounds), 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	Nor	Nor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fight	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fight	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fight	nsubj
4	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 fight	advmod
6	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fight	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 custom	case
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 custom	cop
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 custom	nmod:poss
10	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fight	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 training	cc
12	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 custom	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 uplifted	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 uplifted	cc
15	between	between	ADP	_	17 onslaught	case
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 onslaught	det
17	onslaught	onslaught	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 uplifted	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 heads	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 heads	amod
20	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 uplifted	nsubj:pass
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 uplifted	aux:pass
22	uplifted	uplift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fight	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pealed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pealed	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 pealed	nsubj
26	pealed	peal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 uplifted	parataxis
27	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	26 pealed	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 mournfully	punct
29	mournfully	mournfully	ADV	_	26 pealed	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 urgently	punct
31	urgently	urgently	ADV	_	29 mournfully	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 master	punct
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 master	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 master	nmod:poss
35	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pealed	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fight	past · do-support	Nor	silence		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Co-Agent
2	is	past			as hounds's custom and training	tree rules
3	uplift	past · passive		the great heads	between each onslaught	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	peal	past	hounds = hound		loudly, mournfully property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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