More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 130

One little leg-bone fell close to the closet door, and the farmer was so afraid lest the pixies should come there and find him in their search for the bone, that he put out his hand and drew it in to him.

Who acts: One little leg bone, farmer, pixies, bones · What happens: fall, be, come, find, put out, draw in · To what, where: farmer, search, hand

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 (One little leg bone, farmer, pixies, bones), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 bone	nummod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bone	amod
3	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bone	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 leg	punct
5	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	nsubj
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 fell	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
10	closet	closet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 door	compound
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 afraid	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 afraid	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 farmer	det
15	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 afraid	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 afraid	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 afraid	advmod
18	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fell	advcl
19	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	23 come	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pixies	det
21	pixies	pixie	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 come	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 afraid	ccomp
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 come	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 find	cc
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 come	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 find	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 search	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 search	nmod:poss
30	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 find	obl
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 bone	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bone	det
33	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 search	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 put	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 put	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 put	nsubj
37	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fell	conj
38	out	out	ADP	_	37 put	compound:prt
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 hand	nmod:poss
40	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 put	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 drew	cc
42	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fell	conj
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 drew	obj
44	in	in	ADP	_	42 drew	compound:prt
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 him	case
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 drew	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	One little leg bone				to the closet door; close property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to door=Theme
2	is	past	the farmer				afraid property	tree rules
3	come	should	the pixies			there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	infinitive	the pixies not said here	farmer		bones's search for the bone		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
5	put out	past	farmer	farmer's hand				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
6	draw in	past	One little leg bone not said here	search	farmer			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Destination
7	search		bones = bone				for the bone	nom search «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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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