Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 27
“Well, what made you make that brutal and belching noise?”
What happens: make, belch · To what, where: that, noise
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 made | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 made | obj |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | brutal | brutal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 make | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 belching | cc |
| 11 | belching | belch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 brutal | conj |
| 12 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 belching | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | past | that | brutal property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset that=Product | ||||
| 2 | belch in a quote | gerund | noise | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location noise=Source |
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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