Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 5

On his stamping feet there were great brogues of boots that were shaped like, but were bigger than, a boat, and each time he put a foot down it squashed and squirted a barrelful of mud from the sunk road.

Who acts: great brogues, Fionn · What happens: stamp, be, shape, put, squash, squirt · To what, where: stamping feet, boots, foot, barrelful, sunk road

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great brogues, Fionn), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 feet	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 feet	nmod:poss
3	stamping	stamp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 feet	amod
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 were	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 were	expl
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brogues	amod
8	brogues	brogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 were	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 boots	case
10	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 brogues	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 shaped	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 shaped	aux:pass
13	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 boots	acl:relcl
14	like	like	ADP	_	13 shaped	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bigger	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 bigger	cc
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bigger	cop
18	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 were	nsubj
19	than	than	ADP	_	22 boat	case
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 boat	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 boat	det
22	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bigger	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 squashed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 squashed	cc
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 time	det
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 squashed	obl:unmarked
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	nsubj
28	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 time	acl:relcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 foot	det
30	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obj
31	down	down	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	obl
33	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 were	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 squirted	cc
35	squirted	squirt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 squashed	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 barrelful	det
37	barrelful	barrelful	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 squirted	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 mud	case
39	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 barrelful	nmod
40	from	from	ADP	_	43 road	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 road	det
42	sunk	sunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 road	amod
43	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 squirted	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stamp	gerund						vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	be	past	great brogues of boots		Fionn's stamping feet; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Location
3	shape	past · passive		boots				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	is	past					than a boat; big property	tree rules
5	put	past	Fionn	a foot			down boat	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal
6	squash	participle	great brogues of boots not said here			time		vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
7	squirt	past	great brogues of boots not said here	a barrelful of mud	the sunk road			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent barrelful=Theme

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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