Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 6

Then with red eyes, with bared fangs, with a hoarse, deep snort and growl he rushed at the cave, and then he halted and sneaked back again with all his ruffles smoothed, his tail between his legs, his eyes screwed sideways in miserable apology and alarm, and a long thin whine of woe dribbling out of his nose.

Who acts: ruff, ruffles, eyes, long thin whine, woe · What happens: bare, growl, rush, halt, sneak back, smooth · To what, where: long thin whine, cave, tail, miserable apology, nose

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, ruffles, eyes, long thin whine), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 growl	advmod
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 eyes	case
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eyes	amod
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Then	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fangs	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 fangs	case
7	bared	bare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 fangs	amod
8	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eyes	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 snort	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	15 snort	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 snort	det
12	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 snort	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hoarse	punct
14	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 snort	amod
15	snort	snort	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eyes	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 growl	cc
17	growl	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 rushed	nsubj
19	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 growl	ccomp
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 cave	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cave	det
22	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rushed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 halted	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 halted	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 halted	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 halted	nsubj
27	halted	halt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 growl	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sneaked	cc
29	sneaked	sneak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 halted	conj
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 sneaked	advmod
31	again	again	ADV	_	29 sneaked	advmod
32	with	with	SCONJ	_	36 smoothed	mark
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 ruffles	det:predet
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 ruffles	nmod:poss
35	ruffles	ruffle	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 smoothed	nsubj
36	smoothed	smooth	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sneaked	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 tail	punct
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 tail	nmod:poss
39	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 smoothed	obl
40	between	between	ADP	_	42 legs	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 legs	nmod:poss
42	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 tail	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 screwed	punct
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 eyes	nmod:poss
45	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 screwed	nsubj
46	screwed	screw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 halted	conj
47	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	46 screwed	advmod
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 apology	case
49	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 apology	amod
50	apology	apology	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 screwed	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 alarm	cc
52	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 apology	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 whine	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 whine	cc
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 whine	det
56	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 whine	amod
57	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 whine	amod
58	whine	whine	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 growl	obl
59	of	of	ADP	_	60 woe	case
60	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 whine	nmod
61	dribbling	dribble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	58 whine	acl
62	out	out	ADP	_	65 nose	case
63	of	of	ADP	_	65 nose	case
64	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 nose	nmod:poss
65	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 dribbling	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 growl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bare	participle						vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	growl	present		a long thin whine of woe		then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	rush	past	ruff		the cave			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cave=Trajectory
4	halt	past	ruff			then		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	sneak back	past	ruff not said here			again		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	smooth	past	ruff's ruffles	ruff's tail between ruff's legs				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	screw	past	ruff's eyes		miserable apology and alarm		sideways property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
8	dribble	gerund	a long thin whine of woe not said here		ruff's nose			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out nose=Location
9	whine		woe					nom whine «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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