The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 15

Not only was his cheek unsightly and painful, but his neighbours began to jeer and make fun of him, which hurt his feelings very much indeed.

Who acts: neighbours, fun · What happens: not be, begin, jeer, make, hurt · To what, where: cheek, fun, feelings

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 (neighbours, fun), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 cheek	advmod
2	only	only	ADV	_	5 cheek	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cheek	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cheek	nmod:poss
5	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 painful	nsubj
6	unsightly	unsightly	ADV	_	8 painful	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 painful	cc
8	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 neighbours	nmod:poss
12	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 painful	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 jeer	mark
15	jeer	jeer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 make	cc
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 jeer	conj
18	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fun	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hurt	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 hurt	nsubj
23	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fun	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 feelings	nmod:poss
25	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hurt	obj
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
27	much	much	ADV	_	23 hurt	advmod
28	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 painful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not is a	past		Hok's cheek	tree rules
2	begin	past	Hok's neighbours		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	jeer	to-infinitive	Hok's neighbours not said here		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	infinitive	Hok's neighbours not said here	fun of Hok	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product
5	hurt	past	fun of Hok	Hok's feelings	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feeling=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: «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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