--- title: On his stamping feet there were great brogues of boots that were sha… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/49/5/) [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/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter II](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/49/) / 5 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:49:5 # text = 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. 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 stamping stamp VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 amod _ _ 4 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 5 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 6 expl _ _ 6 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 brogues brogue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 boots boot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 nsubj _ _ 19 than than ADP IN _ 22 case _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 25 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 down down ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 33 squashed squash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 squirted squirt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 barrelful barrelful NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 sunk sunk ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/49/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/49/6/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/49/)