Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 16

Every time it put a front leg forward it shivered all over the rest of its legs backwards, and when it put a hind leg forward it shivered all over the rest of its legs frontwards, and it used to give a great whistle through its nose when it was out of breath, and a big, thin hen was sitting on its croup.

Who acts: old, big thin hen · What happens: put, shiver, use, give, be, sit · To what, where: front leg, rest, hind leg, great whistle, nose, breath

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old, big thin hen), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shivered	obl:unmarked
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 time	acl:relcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 leg	det
6	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 leg	amod
7	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
8	forward	forward	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shivered	nsubj
10	shivered	shiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	all	all	ADV	_	14 rest	advmod
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 rest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rest	det
14	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shivered	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 legs	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 legs	nmod:poss
17	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rest	nmod
18	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	10 shivered	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 shivered	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 shivered	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 put	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 put	nsubj
23	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 shivered	advcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 leg	det
25	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 leg	amod
26	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obj
27	forward	forward	ADV	_	23 put	advmod
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 shivered	nsubj
29	shivered	shiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 shivered	conj
30	all	all	ADV	_	33 rest	advmod
31	over	over	ADP	_	33 rest	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 rest	det
33	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shivered	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 frontwards	case
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 legs	nmod:poss
36	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 frontwards	compound
37	frontwards	frontward	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 rest	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 used	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 used	cc
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 used	nsubj
41	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 shivered	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 give	mark
43	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 used	xcomp
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 whistle	det
45	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 whistle	amod
46	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 give	obj
47	through	through	ADP	_	49 nose	case
48	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 nose	nmod:poss
49	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 give	obl
50	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	55 breath	advmod
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 breath	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 breath	cop
53	out	out	ADP	_	55 breath	case
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 breath	case
55	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 give	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 sitting	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 sitting	cc
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 hen	det
59	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 hen	amod
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 big	punct
61	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 hen	amod
62	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 sitting	nsubj
63	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 sitting	aux
64	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 used	advcl
65	on	on	ADP	_	67 croup	case
66	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	67 croup	nmod:poss
67	croup	croup	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 sitting	obl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 shivered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	old	a front leg			forward property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent leg=Goal
2	shiver	past	old	the rest of old's legs		time	backwards property	tree rules
3	put	past	old	a hind leg			forward property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent leg=Goal
4	shiver	past	old	the rest of legs frontwards				tree rules
5	use	past	old					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	give	to-infinitive	old not said here	a great whistle	old's nose			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whistle=Theme
7	is	past	old		breath			tree rules
8	sit	past · progressive	a big thin hen		old's croup			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on croup=Location

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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