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title: Then he raised his big boot and gave the boat a kick that drove it s… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 28

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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.

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**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

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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.

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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:pg2892:55:28
# text = 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.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
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	boot	boot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	kick	kick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nsubj	_	_
17	leagues	league	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Cael	Cael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
34	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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