--- title: One little leg-bone fell close to the closet door, and the farmer wa… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:22:130 # text = 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. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 closet closet NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 advcl _ _ 19 lest lest SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 pixies pixie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 24 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 38 out out ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 in in ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/22/129/) - next →: [sentence 131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/22/131/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/22/)