More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 122

Tick, tick, went the clock, and the farmer was nearly tired of waiting; he had to bite his little finger to keep himself awake, when suddenly the door of his house flew open, and in rushed maybe a thousand pixies, laughing and dancing and dragging at Beauty's halter till they had brought the cow into the middle of the room.

Who acts: Tick, farmer, door · What happens: go, be, wait, have, bite, keep · To what, where: clock, little finger, farmer, rushed thousand pixies, halter, Tick

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 (Tick, farmer, door), 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	Tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tick	punct
3	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tick	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Tick	punct
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clock	det
7	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tired	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tired	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 farmer	det
11	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tired	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tired	cop
13	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	14 tired	advmod
14	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	parataxis
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 waiting	mark
16	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 tired	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 bite	mark
21	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	xcomp
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 finger	nmod:poss
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 finger	amod
24	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bite	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 keep	mark
26	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 bite	advcl
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 keep	obj
28	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 keep	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 flew	punct
30	when	when	SCONJ	_	37 flew	mark
31	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	33 door	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 door	det
33	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 flew	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 house	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 house	nmod:poss
36	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 door	nmod
37	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 had	conj
38	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 flew	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 pixies	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 pixies	cc
41	in	in	ADP	_	46 pixies	case
42	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 pixies	amod
43	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	45 thousand	advmod
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 thousand	det
45	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 pixies	nummod
46	pixies	pixie	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 flew	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 laughing	punct
48	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 pixies	appos
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 dancing	cc
50	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 laughing	conj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 dragging	cc
52	dragging	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 laughing	conj
53	at	at	ADP	_	56 halter	case
54	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 halter	nmod:poss
55	's	's	PART	_	54 Beauty	case
56	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 dragging	obl
57	till	till	SCONJ	_	60 brought	mark
58	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 brought	nsubj:pass
59	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 brought	aux
60	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 dragging	advcl
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 cow	det
62	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 brought	obj
63	into	into	ADP	_	65 middle	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 middle	det
65	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 brought	obl
66	of	of	ADP	_	68 room	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 room	det
68	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 middle	nmod
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Tick and tick	the clock			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clock=Theme
2	is	past	the farmer			nearly, tired property	tree rules
3	wait	gerund	the farmer not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	farmer				tree rules
5	bite	to-infinitive	farmer not said here	farmer's little finger			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient
6	keep	to-infinitive	farmer not said here	farmer		awake property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
7	fly	past	the door of farmer's house		rushed thousand pixies	open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pixie=Location
8	rush	participle					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	laugh	gerund					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	dance	gerund					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	drag	gerund			Beauty's halter		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at halter=Location
12	bring	past · perfect · passive		Tick	the middle of the room		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme cow=Destination

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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