Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 31

And when he said that the dog put an addition and an addendum on to the noise he had been making before, so that the men of Ireland stuck their fingers into their ears and turned the whites of their eyes upwards, and nearly fell off their branches with the fear and the fright which that sound put into them.

Who acts: Mananna’n, dog, men, fear · What happens: say, put, make, stick, turn, fall off · To what, where: addition, noise, fingers, ears, whites, branches · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Mananna’n, dog, men, fear), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 said	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 put	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	nsubj
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 addition	det
10	addition	addition	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 addendum	cc
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 addendum	det
13	addendum	addendum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 addition	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 noise	case
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 noise	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 noise	det
17	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 making	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 making	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 making	aux
21	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 noise	acl:relcl
22	before	before	ADV	_	21 making	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stuck	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	30 stuck	advmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 stuck	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 men	det
27	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stuck	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Ireland	case
29	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 men	nmod
30	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 fingers	nmod:poss
32	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stuck	obj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 ears	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 ears	nmod:poss
35	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stuck	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 turned	cc
37	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 stuck	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 whites	det
39	whites	white	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 turned	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 eyes	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 eyes	nmod:poss
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 whites	nmod
43	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	37 turned	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 fell	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 fell	cc
46	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	47 fell	advmod
47	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
48	off	off	ADP	_	50 branches	case
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 branches	nmod:poss
50	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 fell	obl
51	with	with	ADP	_	53 fear	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 fear	det
53	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 fell	obl
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 fright	cc
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 fright	det
56	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 fear	conj
57	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 sound	nsubj
58	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 sound	nsubj
59	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 fear	parataxis
60	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 sound	xcomp
61	into	into	ADP	_	62 them	case
62	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 put	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mananna’n = mananna'n				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	put	infinitive	the dog	a addition and a addendum	the noise		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent addition=Theme on noise=Destination
3	make	past · perfect · progressive	Mananna’n = mananna'n	the noise not said here		before property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product
4	stick	past	the men of Ireland	addition's fingers	addition's ears		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme into ear=Destination
5	turn	past	the men of Ireland not said here	the whites of addition's eyes		upwards property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent white=Theme
6	fall off	past	Mananna’n = mananna'n not said here	addition's branches		with the fear and the fright; nearly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient branch=Extent
7	sound	present	the fear and the fright				tree rules
8	put	participle	the fear and the fright not said here			into addition	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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