The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 19
After the doctor had examined him carefully, he spoke thus: ‘This, O Hok Lee, is no ordinary swelled face.
Who acts: doctor · What happens: examine, speak, be · To what, where: doctor, This, ordinary swelled face · 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 (doctor), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 examined | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 doctor | det |
| 3 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 examined | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 examined | aux |
| 5 | examined | examine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 spoke | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 examined | obj |
| 7 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 5 examined | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 examined | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spoke | nsubj |
| 10 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 10 spoke | advmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 spoke | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 spoke | punct |
| 14 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 spoke | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hok | punct |
| 16 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Hok | compound |
| 17 | Hok | Hok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 spoke | obl |
| 18 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Hok | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 face | punct |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 face | cop |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 face | det |
| 22 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 face | amod |
| 23 | swelled | swelled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 face | amod |
| 24 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Hok | appos |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | examine | past · perfect · passive | the doctor | carefully property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme he=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | doctor | This | O Hok obl; thus property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | no ordinary swelled face | tree rules |
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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