Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 23

It was neither a growl nor a grunt, although it was both of these; it was not a yowl nor a groan, although it was both of these: for it was one sound made up of these sounds, and there was in it, too, a whine and a yelp, and a long-drawn snoring noise, and a deep purring noise, and a noise that was like the squeal of a rusty hinge, and there were other noises in it also.

Who acts: dog, growl, noise, other noises · What happens: be, not be, make up, draw · To what, where: growl, yowl, one sound, whine

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 (dog, growl, noise, other noises), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 growl	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 growl	cop
3	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	5 growl	cc:preconj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 growl	det
5	growl	growl	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 whine	nsubj
6	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	8 grunt	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 grunt	det
8	grunt	grunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 growl	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 both	punct
10	although	although	SCONJ	_	13 both	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 both	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 both	cop
13	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 growl	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 these	case
15	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 both	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 yowl	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 yowl	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 yowl	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 yowl	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 yowl	det
21	yowl	yowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 growl	conj
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	24 groan	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 groan	det
24	groan	groan	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 yowl	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 both	punct
26	although	although	SCONJ	_	29 both	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 both	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 both	cop
29	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	21 yowl	appos
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 these	case
31	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 both	nmod
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 sound	punct
33	for	for	ADP	_	37 sound	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sound	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 sound	cop
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 sound	nummod
37	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 growl	conj
38	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 sound	acl
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 made	compound:prt
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 sounds	case
41	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	42 sounds	det
42	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 made	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 was	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 was	cc
45	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	46 was	expl
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 whine	cop
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 it	case
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 was	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 whine	punct
50	too	too	ADV	_	53 whine	advmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 whine	punct
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 whine	det
53	whine	whine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 yelp	cc
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 yelp	det
56	yelp	yelp	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 whine	conj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 noise	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 noise	cc
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 noise	det
60	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 drawn	amod
61	-	-	PUNCT	_	60 long	punct
62	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	64 noise	amod
63	snoring	snoring	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 noise	compound
64	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 whine	conj
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 noise	punct
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 noise	cc
67	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	70 noise	det
68	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 noise	amod
69	purring	purring	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 noise	compound
70	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 whine	conj
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	79 squeal	punct
72	and	and	CCONJ	_	79 squeal	cc
73	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	74 noise	det
74	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 squeal	nsubj
75	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	79 squeal	nsubj
76	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	79 squeal	cop
77	like	like	ADP	_	79 squeal	case
78	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	79 squeal	det
79	squeal	squeal	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 whine	conj
80	of	of	ADP	_	83 hinge	case
81	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	83 hinge	det
82	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	83 hinge	amod
83	hinge	hinge	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 squeal	nmod
84	,	,	PUNCT	_	87 were	punct
85	and	and	CCONJ	_	87 were	cc
86	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	87 were	expl
87	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 whine	parataxis
88	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	89 noises	amod
89	noises	noise	NOUN	Number=Plur	87 were	nsubj
90	in	in	ADP	_	91 it	case
91	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	89 noises	nmod
92	also	also	ADV	_	87 were	advmod
93	.	.	PUNCT	_	53 whine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	dog	a growl nor a grunt and a yowl nor a groan and one sound		both nmod	tree rules
2	not is a	past	dog	a yowl nor a groan			tree rules
3	is	past	dog			for one sound	tree rules
4	make up	participle		one sound not said here		of this sounds	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past	a growl nor a grunt and a yowl nor a groan and one sound	a whine and a yelp and a drawn snoring noise and a deep purring noise and the squeal			tree rules
6	draw	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	a noise			like the squeal; of a rusty hinge	tree rules
8	be	past	other noises in dog		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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