More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 93

And when they saw that, they were feared lest they shouldn't have time to work their will; and they caught hold of her, with horrid bony fingers, and laid her deep in the water at the foot of the snag.

Who acts: Horrors · What happens: see, fear, not have, work, catch, lay · To what, where: Horrors, hold, water, Ho · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Horrors), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 saw	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 feared	mark
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 that	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 feared	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 feared	aux:pass
9	feared	fear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 saw	ccomp
10	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	14 have	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 have	advmod
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 feared	advcl
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 work	mark
17	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 time	acl
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 will	nmod:poss
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 work	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 caught	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 caught	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 caught	nsubj
23	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	parataxis
24	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 caught	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hold	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fingers	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 fingers	case
29	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fingers	amod
30	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fingers	amod
31	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 caught	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 laid	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 laid	cc
34	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 caught	conj
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 deep	nmod:poss
36	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 laid	xcomp
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 water	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 water	det
39	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 laid	obl
40	at	at	ADP	_	42 foot	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 foot	det
42	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 laid	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 snag	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 snag	det
45	snag	snag	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 foot	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Horrors = horror					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	fear	past · passive		Horrors = horror				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	not have	should	Horrors = horror			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	work	to-infinitive	Horrors = horror not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	catch	past	Horrors = horror	hold of Ho			with horrid bony fingers	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
6	lay	past	Horrors = horror not said here		the water		at the foot of the snag; deep property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in water=Destination
7	hold			Ho				nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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