More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 121

The farmer determined to watch the third night; so he hid in a closet which opened out of the parlour, and he left the door just ajar, that he might see what passed.

Who acts: farmer, closet · What happens: determine, watch, hide, open out, leave, see · To what, where: closet, parlour, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, closet), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 determined	nsubj
3	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 watch	mark
5	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 determined	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 night	det
7	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 night	amod
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watch	obl:unmarked
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 hid	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 hid	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hid	nsubj
12	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 determined	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 closet	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 closet	det
15	closet	closet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hid	obl
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 opened	nsubj
17	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 closet	acl:relcl
18	out	out	ADP	_	21 parlour	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 parlour	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 parlour	det
21	parlour	parlour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 opened	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 left	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 left	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 left	nsubj
25	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 determined	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 door	det
27	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 left	obj
28	just	just	ADV	_	29 ajar	advmod
29	ajar	ajar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 left	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 see	punct
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 see	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 see	nsubj
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 see	aux
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 left	conj
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 passed	nsubj
36	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 see	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	past	the farmer					vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	watch	to-infinitive	the farmer not said here			night		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	hide	past	farmer		a closet			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in closet=Location
4	open out	past	a closet	the parlour				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location parlour=Theme
5	leave	past	farmer	the door			ajar property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme
6	see	might	farmer					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	pass	past						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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