Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 19
It is the noise made by a tied-up dog.
Who acts: sun · What happens: be, make, tie up · To what, where: noise
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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 | 4 noise | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 noise | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 noise | det |
| 4 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 noise | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 dog | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dog | det |
| 8 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 dog | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 up | punct |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 tied | compound:prt |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl:agent |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 noise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | sun | the noise | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | the noise not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | tie up | participle | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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