Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 15

A little whoof, like the sound that would be made by a baby and it asleep, came from Cona’n.

Who acts: baby, little whoof · What happens: make, come · To what, where: sound, Cona’n

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baby, little whoof), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 whoof	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 whoof	amod
3	whoof	whoof	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sound	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 sound	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sound	det
7	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whoof	appos
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 made	obl
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 made	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 made	aux:pass
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sound	acl:relcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 baby	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 baby	det
14	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obl:agent
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 asleep	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asleep	nsubj
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 made	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 whoof	punct
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 Cona’n	case
21	Cona’n	Cona'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would · passive	a baby	the sound					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	come	past	a little whoof			Cona’n			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from cona'n=Initial_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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