Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 2

Still, if you keep on driving a pig or a story they will get at last to where you wish them to go, and the man who continues putting one foot in front of the other will leave his home behind, and will come at last to the edge of the sea and the end of the world.

Who acts: you, story, man · What happens: keep, drive, get, wish, go, continue · To what, where: pig, last, heart, one foot, front, home

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, story, man), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	5 keep	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 keep	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	SCONJ	_	7 driving	mark
7	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pig	det
9	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 driving	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 get	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 story	det
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 get	nsubj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 get	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 get	aux
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 driving	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 get	obl
18	to	to	SCONJ	_	21 wish	mark
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 wish	advmod
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 wish	nsubj
21	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 last	advcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wish	iobj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 go	mark
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wish	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 leave	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 leave	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 leave	nsubj
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 continues	nsubj
30	continues	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 man	acl:relcl
31	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 continues	xcomp
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 foot	nummod
33	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 putting	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 front	case
35	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 putting	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 other	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 other	det
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 front	nmod
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 leave	aux
40	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 keep	conj
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 home	nmod:poss
42	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 leave	obj
43	behind	behind	ADV	_	40 leave	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 come	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 come	cc
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 come	aux
47	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 keep	conj
48	at	at	ADP	_	49 last	case
49	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 come	obl
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 edge	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 edge	det
52	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 come	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 sea	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 sea	det
55	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 edge	nmod
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 end	cc
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 end	det
58	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 edge	conj
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 world	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 world	det
61	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 end	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	you				still		tree rules
2	drive	gerund	you not said here	a pig					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Theme
3	get	future	a story			last			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	wish	present	you		heart				tree rules
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	continue	present	the man						vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	put	gerund	the man not said here	one foot		front of the other			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in front=Destination
8	leave	future	the man	man's home				behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme
9	come	future	you not said here			last		to the edge of the sea and the end of the world	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to edge=Initial_Location

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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