Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 47

“Well, what was it that knocked a howl out of you like the yelp of a sick dog, honest man?”

Who acts: Da’v, you, sick dog · What happens: be, knock, like, yelp · To what, where: Da’v, howl, yelp

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: who acts (Da’v, you, sick 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 knocked	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 it	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 it	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 it	cop
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 knocked	nsubj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 knocked	nsubj
8	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 howl	det
10	howl	howl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knocked	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	14 like	mark
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 out	fixed
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 like	nsubj
14	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 knocked	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 yelp	det
16	yelp	yelp	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 like	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 dog	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 dog	det
19	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dog	amod
20	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 yelp	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 man	punct
22	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dog	conj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 knocked	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		Da’v = da'v	tree rules
2	knock in a quote	past	Da’v = da'v	a howl	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent howl=Patient
3	like in a quote	present	you	the yelp of a sick dog and honest man	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot yelp=Theme
4	yelp in a quote		a sick dog and honest man		nom yelp «event 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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