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title: That is, she had one foot that was too big for her, so that when she… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That is, she had one foot that was too big for her, so that when she lifted it up it pulled her over; and she had one foot that was too small for her, so that when she lifted it up she didn’t know what to do with it. Who acts: That, Hag, one foot, Mill. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Ste
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 8

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That is, she had one foot that was too big for her, so that when she lifted it up it pulled her over; and she had one foot that was too small for her, so that when she lifted it up she didn’t know what to do with it.

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**Who acts:** That, Hag, one foot, Mill · **What happens:** be, have, lift up, pull over, not know, do · **To what, where:** one foot, Mill, Hag · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Hag, one foot, Mill), 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:pg2892:90:8
# text = That is, she had one foot that was too big for her, so that when she lifted it up it pulled her over; and she had one foot that was too small for her, so that when she lifted it up she didn’t know what to do with it.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	19	mark	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	too	too	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	43	mark	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	fixed	_	_
41	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	advmod	_	_
42	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	advcl	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	up	up	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
47	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
49	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	parataxis	_	_
50	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	52	obj	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	ccomp	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | That |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | Hag | one foot |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | one foot |  |  |  |  | for Hag; big *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lift up** | past | Hag | Mill |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **pull over** | past | Mill | Hag |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent she=Result |
| 6 | **have** | past | Hag | one foot |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |
| 7 | **is** | past | one foot |  |  |  |  | for Hag; small *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **lift up** | past | Hag | Mill |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 9 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | Hag |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 10 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with Mill | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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