The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 14
Hok Lee was at his wits’ ends what to do.
Who acts: Hok · What happens: be, end, do · To what, where: wits
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 (Hok), 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 | Hok | Hok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wits | nsubj |
| 2 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Hok | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wits | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 wits | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wits | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 ends | punct |
| 8 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wits | conj |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 do | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ends | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Hok | Hok's wits | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | end | present | Hok not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | Hok not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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