Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 90

Cucullin put one of the cakes in his mouth to take a huge whack out of it, when he made a thundering noise, something between a growl and a yell. "

Who acts: Cucullin · What happens: put, take, make · To what, where: one, mouth, huge whack, whack, thundering noise

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cucullin), 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	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 put	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cakes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cakes	det
6	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 mouth	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mouth	nmod:poss
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 take	mark
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 put	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 whack	det
13	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 whack	amod
14	whack	whack	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	17 it	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 take	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 made	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 made	nsubj
21	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 noise	det
23	thundering	thundering	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 noise	compound
24	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 something	punct
26	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 noise	appos
27	between	between	ADP	_	29 growl	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 growl	det
29	growl	growl	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 something	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 yell	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 yell	det
32	yell	yell	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 growl	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 something	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	put	past	Cucullin	one of the cakes	Cucullin's mouth	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme in mouth=Destination
2	take	to-infinitive	Cucullin not said here	a huge whack	whack	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent whack=Theme out it=Initial_Location
3	make	past	Cucullin	a thundering noise		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product

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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