Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 22

Dreadful was that mouth to look at, terrible to look into, woeful to think about; and from it, or from the broad, loose nose that waggled above it, there came a sound which no word of man could describe, for it was not a snarl, nor was it a howl, although it was both of these.

Who acts: Dreadful, broad loose nose, word, dog · What happens: be, look, think about, waggle, come, describe · To what, where: mouth, sound, howl, man

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dreadful, broad loose nose, word, 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	Dreadful	dreadful	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mouth	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mouth	cop
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 mouth	det
4	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 mouth	acl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 terrible	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 terrible	punct
9	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 look	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 look	mark
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 terrible	xcomp
12	into	into	ADP	_	11 look	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 woeful	punct
14	woeful	woeful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 terrible	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 think	mark
16	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 woeful	xcomp
17	about	about	ADP	_	16 think	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 it	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 it	cc
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mouth	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 nose	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 nose	cc
24	from	from	ADP	_	29 nose	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 nose	det
26	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 nose	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 broad	punct
28	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 nose	amod
29	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 it	appos
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 waggled	nsubj
31	waggled	waggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 nose	acl:relcl
32	above	above	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 waggled	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 came	punct
35	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	36 came	expl
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 nose	parataxis
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 sound	det
38	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 came	obj
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 describe	obj
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 word	det
41	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 describe	nsubj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 man	case
43	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 word	nmod
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 describe	aux
45	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 sound	acl:relcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 snarl	punct
47	for	for	ADP	_	52 snarl	case
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 snarl	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 snarl	cop
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 snarl	advmod
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 snarl	det
52	snarl	snarl	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 describe	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 howl	punct
54	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	58 howl	cc
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 howl	cop
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 howl	nsubj
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 howl	det
58	howl	howl	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 came	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 both	punct
60	although	although	SCONJ	_	63 both	mark
61	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 both	nsubj
62	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 both	cop
63	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	58 howl	appos
64	of	of	ADP	_	65 these	case
65	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	63 both	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mouth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dreadful	that mouth			tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive				at terrible	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at terrible=Theme
3	look	to-infinitive					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	think about speech: other	to-infinitive					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	waggle	past	the broad loose nose			above dog	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come	past		a sound	there		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme
7	describe	could	no word of man	a sound			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent which=Theme
8	not is	past	dog			for a snarl	tree rules
9	is a	past	dog	a howl			tree rules
10	word			man			nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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