Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 4

From the troop of dogs there arose a baying and barking, a snarling and howling and growling, a yelping and squealing and bawling for which no words can be found.

Who acts: snarling · What happens: arise, bay, bark, howl, growl, yelp · To what, where: snarling, troop, words

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 (snarling), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 troop	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 troop	det
3	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arose	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 dogs	case
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 troop	nmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 arose	advmod
7	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 snarling	det
9	baying	bay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 snarling	csubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 barking	cc
11	barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 baying	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 snarling	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 snarling	det
14	snarling	snarling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arose	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 howling	cc
16	howling	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 snarling	acl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 growling	cc
18	growling	growl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 howling	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 found	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 found	det
21	yelping	yelp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 found	nsubj:pass
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 squealing	cc
23	squealing	squeal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 yelping	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bawling	cc
25	bawling	bawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 yelping	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	29 words	det
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 words	det
29	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bawling	obj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 found	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 found	aux:pass
32	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 snarling	acl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	arise	past		a snarling	the troop of dogs; there	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location snarling=Theme
2	bay	gerund				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bark	gerund				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	howl	gerund	a snarling not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	growl	gerund	a snarling not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	yelp	gerund				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	squeal	gerund				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	bawl speech: other	gerund		which words		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
9	find	can · passive		a snarling not said here		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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