Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 57

"Hee-haw, hee-haw!" roared the ass; "bow-wow!" barked the dog; "meaw-meaw!" cried the cat; "cock-a-doodle-doo!" crowed the cock.

Who acts: Hee haw, bow wow, meaw meaw, cock, doodle doo · What happens: roar, bark, cry, doo, crow · To what, where: ass, dog, cat, cock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hee haw, bow wow, meaw meaw, cock), 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	_	4 haw	punct
2	Hee	Hee	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 haw	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Hee	punct
4	haw	haw	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 roared	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 haw	punct
6	hee	hee	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 haw	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 haw	punct
8	haw	haw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 haw	appos
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 haw	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 haw	punct
11	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ass	det
13	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 roared	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 barked	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 wow	punct
16	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wow	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 bow	punct
18	wow	wow	NOUN	_	21 barked	nsubj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 wow	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 wow	punct
21	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 roared	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 dog	det
23	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 barked	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 cried	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 meaw	punct
26	meaw	meaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 meaw	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 meaw	punct
28	meaw	meaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cried	nsubj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 meaw	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 meaw	punct
31	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 barked	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cat	det
33	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cried	obj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 crowed	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 doo	punct
36	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 doo	nsubj
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 doo	punct
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 doo	det
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 a	punct
40	doodle	doodle	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 doo	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 doodle	punct
42	doo	doo	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 crowed	nsubj
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	42 doo	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 doo	punct
45	crowed	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 roared	conj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 cock	det
47	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 crowed	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 roared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	roar	past	Hee haw	the ass	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ass=Theme
2	bark	past	bow wow	the dog	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	meaw meaw	the cat	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Topic
4	doo in a quote		cock		tree rules
5	crow	past	a doodle doo	the cock	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Topic

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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