More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 74

But when he was leaning over the chest she caught him by the two heels, and threw him into the chest, and fastened it down.

Who acts: hole, wife · What happens: lean, catch, throw, fasten down · To what, where: chest, hole

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hole, wife), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 caught	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 leaning	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leaning	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 leaning	aux
5	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 caught	advcl
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 chest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chest	det
8	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leaning	obl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 caught	nsubj
10	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 caught	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 heels	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 heels	det
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 heels	nummod
15	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 caught	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 threw	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 threw	cc
18	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 caught	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 threw	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 chest	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 chest	det
22	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 threw	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fastened	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fastened	cc
25	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 caught	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fastened	obj
27	down	down	ADP	_	25 fastened	compound:prt
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lean	past · progressive	hole		the chest		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over chest=Location
2	catch	past	wife	hole		by the two heels	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	throw	past	wife not said here	hole		into the chest result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into chest=Result
4	fasten down	past	wife not said here	chest			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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