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title: From the troop of dogs there arose a baying and barking, a snarling… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: From the troop of dogs there arose a baying and barking, a snarling and howling and growling, a yelping and squealing and bawling for which no words can be found. Who acts: snarling. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 4

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From the troop of dogs there arose a baying and barking, a snarling and howling and growling, a yelping and squealing and bawling for which no words can be found.

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**Who acts:** snarling · **What happens:** arise, bay, bark, howl, growl, yelp · **To what, where:** snarling, troop, words

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snarling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:60:4
# text = From the troop of dogs there arose a baying and barking, a snarling and howling and growling, a yelping and squealing and bawling for which no words can be found.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
9	baying	bay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	snarling	snarling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	howling	howl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	growling	growl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
21	yelping	yelp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	squealing	squeal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	bawling	bawl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	29	det	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past |  | a snarling |  | the troop of dogs; there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location snarling=Theme |
| 2 | **bay** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bark** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **howl** | gerund | a snarling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **growl** | gerund | a snarling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **yelp** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **squeal** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **bawl** *speech: other* | gerund |  | which words |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 9 | **find** | can · passive |  | a snarling *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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.

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**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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