--- title: "Hee-haw, hee-haw!" roared the ass; "bow-wow!" barked the dog; "meaw… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "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. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/57/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [Jack and His Comrades](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/) / 57 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7885:18:57 # text = "Hee-haw, hee-haw!" roared the ass; "bow-wow!" barked the dog; "meaw-meaw!" cried the cat; "cock-a-doodle-doo!" crowed the cock. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Hee Hee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 haw haw NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 hee hee NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 haw haw NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 11 roared roar VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 ass ass NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 wow wow NOUN NN _ 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ! ! PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 21 barked bark VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 meaw meaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 meaw meaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ! ! PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 31 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 doodle doodle NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 doo doo NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ! ! PUNCT . _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 45 crowed crow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/58/) - ↑ back to [Jack and His Comrades](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/)