Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 14
Now and again a dog whined in a whisper and snapped a little snap on the air, but except for that there was neither sound nor movement.
Who acts: dog · What happens: whine, snap, be · To what, where: whisper, little snap, air, sound
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 (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 whined | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 again | cc |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Now | conj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 whined | nsubj |
| 6 | whined | whine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 whisper | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 whisper | det |
| 9 | whisper | whisper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 whined | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 snapped | cc |
| 11 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 whined | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 snap | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 snap | amod |
| 14 | snap | snap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 snapped | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 air | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 air | det |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 snapped | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sound | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 sound | cc |
| 20 | except | except | ADP | _ | 24 was | mark |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 except | fixed |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 was | mark |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 was | expl |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 sound | cop |
| 25 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 sound | cc:preconj |
| 26 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 snapped | obl |
| 27 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 28 movement | cc |
| 28 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sound | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 whined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whine | participle | a dog | a whisper | now | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in whisper=Location | |||
| 2 | snap | past | a dog not said here | a little snap | the air | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location snap=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | past | sound nor movement | tree rules |
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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