--- title: Still, if you keep on driving a pig or a story they will get at last… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/85/2/) [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 XIV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/85/) / 2 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:85:2 # text = 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. 1 Still still ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 if if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 on on SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 driving drive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 obl _ _ 18 to to SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 21 advmod _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 continues continue VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 xcomp _ _ 32 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 nmod _ _ 39 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 behind behind ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 47 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 48 at at ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 obl _ _ 50 to to ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 53 of of ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 conj _ _ 59 of of ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 62 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/85/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/85/3/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XIV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/85/)