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description: 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. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 136

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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.

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**Who acts:** skin, alas, bone · **What happens:** be, drag, halt · **To what, where:** skin, forefoot

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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.

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**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:pg14241:22:136
# text = 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.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pixies	pixie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	halted	halt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	forefoot	forefoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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