The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 11

‘I will bind up my face,’ said Hok Lee; ‘doubtless the warmth will cure the swelling.’

Who acts: I, Hok, doubtless · What happens: bind up, say, cure · To what, where: face, swelling · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Hok, doubtless), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 bind	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 bind	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bind	aux
4	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 bind	compound:prt
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 face	nmod:poss
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bind	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bind	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 bind	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Hok	Hok	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	Lee	Lee	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Hok	flat
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 cure	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 doubtless	punct
15	doubtless	doubtless	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cure	nsubj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 warmth	det
17	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cure	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 cure	aux
19	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 swelling	det
21	swelling	swelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cure	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 cure	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 cure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	bind up	future	I	my face	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Hok		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cure	future	doubtless	the swelling	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer swelling=Source

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: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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