Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 28

Then he raised his big boot and gave the boat a kick that drove it seven leagues out into the sea, and that was how the adventure of Cael of the Iron finished.

Who acts: Cael, kick, seven, that, adventure · What happens: raise, give, drive, league out, be, finish · To what, where: big boot, boat, kick, sea, Cael

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cael, kick, seven, that), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 raised	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 raised	nsubj
3	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 boot	nmod:poss
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boot	amod
6	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 raised	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 raised	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boat	det
10	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 kick	det
12	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 drove	nsubj
14	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 kick	acl:relcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 drove	obj
16	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 leagues	nsubj
17	leagues	league	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 drove	ccomp
18	out	out	ADV	_	17 leagues	advmod
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 sea	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sea	det
21	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 leagues	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 finished	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 finished	cc
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 how	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 how	cop
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 finished	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 adventure	det
28	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 finished	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Cael	case
30	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 adventure	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 Iron	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Iron	det
33	Iron	Iron	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 adventure	nmod
34	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 raised	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 raised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past	Cael	Cael's big boot		then		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme
2	give	past	Cael not said here	the boat				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent boat=Recipient kick=Theme
3	drive	past	a kick	kick				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Patient clause=Result
4	league out	present	seven		the sea		out property	tree rules
5	is	past	that				how property	tree rules
6	finish	past	the adventure of Cael of the Iron					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	adventure			Cael				nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient

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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