More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 136
It was alive again; but, alas! as the pixies dragged it back to its stall, it halted in the off forefoot, for a bone was missing.
Who acts: skin, alas, bone · What happens: be, drag, halt · To what, where: skin, forefoot
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 (skin, alas, bone), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 alive | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 alive | cop |
| 3 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 alive | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 dragged | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 dragged | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 alas | punct |
| 8 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dragged | nsubj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 alas | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 pixies | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pixies | det |
| 12 | pixies | pixie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dragged | nsubj |
| 13 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 alive | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dragged | obj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 dragged | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 stall | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 stall | nmod:poss |
| 18 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 back | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 halted | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 halted | nsubj |
| 21 | halted | halt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dragged | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 forefoot | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 forefoot | det |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 forefoot | case |
| 25 | forefoot | forefoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 halted | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 missing | punct |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 missing | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bone | det |
| 29 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 missing | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 missing | cop |
| 31 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 halted | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 alive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | skin | again | alive property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | drag | past | alas | skin | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | halt | past | skin | the forefoot | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | past | a bone | missing property | tree rules |
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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