Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 38

The thumping of his big boots grew as con-tinuous as the pattering of hailstones on a roof, and the wind of his passage blew trees down.

Who acts: thumping, wind, big boots, Carl · What happens: grow, blow down, thump, wind, pass · To what, where: trees, passage

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 (thumping, wind, big boots, Carl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thumping	det
2	thumping	thumping	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grew	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 boots	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 boots	nmod:poss
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boots	amod
6	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thumping	nmod
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 tinuous	mark
9	con	con	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tinuous	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 con	punct
11	tinuous	tinuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grew	xcomp
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 pattering	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pattering	det
14	pattering	pattering	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tinuous	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 hailstones	case
16	hailstones	hailstone	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pattering	nmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 roof	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 roof	det
19	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hailstones	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 blew	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 blew	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wind	det
23	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 blew	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 passage	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 passage	nmod:poss
26	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wind	nmod
27	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grew	conj
28	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 blew	obj
29	down	down	ADV	_	27 blew	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the thumping of Carl's big boots		tinuous property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blow down	past	the wind of Carl's passage	trees	down property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
3	thump		Carl's big boots			nom thumping «event intransitive»: of=agent
4	wind			Carl's passage		nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
5	pass		Carl			nom passage «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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