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title: The thumping of his big boots grew as con-tinuous as the pattering o… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 38

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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.

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

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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.

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**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:pg2892:52:38
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thumping	thumping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	con	con	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tinuous	tinuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pattering	pattering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hailstones	hailstone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
28	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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