Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 5

Now and again a dog nosed among a thousand smells and scented his master; the ruff of his neck stood up like a hog’s bristles and a netty ridge prickled along his spine.

Who acts: ruff · What happens: nose, scent, stand up, prickle · To what, where: dog, thousand smells, master, netty ridge

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 (ruff), 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	12 scented	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	1 Now	nsubj
6	nosed	nose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dog	acl
7	among	among	ADP	_	10 smells	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thousand	det
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 smells	nummod
10	smells	smell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 nosed	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 scented	cc
12	scented	scent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 master	nmod:poss
14	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 scented	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 stood	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ruff	det
17	ruff	ruff	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stood	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 neck	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 neck	nmod:poss
20	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ruff	nmod
21	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 scented	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 stood	compound:prt
23	like	like	ADP	_	27 bristles	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hog	det
25	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bristles	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 hog	case
27	bristles	bristle	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stood	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ridge	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 ridge	det
30	netty	netty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 ridge	amod
31	ridge	ridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bristles	conj
32	prickled	prickle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 ridge	acl
33	along	along	ADP	_	35 spine	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 spine	nmod:poss
35	spine	spine	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 prickled	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 scented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nose	participle		a dog not said here	thousand smells			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme among smell=Trajectory
2	scent	past		cave's master		now		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent master=Destination
3	stand up	past	the ruff of ruff's neck				like a hog's bristles and a netty ridge	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	prickle	participle		a netty ridge not said here			along ruff's spine	vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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