The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 2

He was a steady industrious man, who not only worked hard at his trade, but did all his own house-work as well, for he had no wife to do it for him.

Who acts: man, steady industrious man · What happens: be, work, do, have, trade · To what, where: steady industrious man, own house work, wife, work

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 (man, steady industrious man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:2409): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 man	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
4	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
5	industrious	industrious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 worked	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 worked	nsubj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 only	advmod
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 worked	advmod
11	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	acl:relcl
12	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 worked	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 trade	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 trade	nmod:poss
15	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 worked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 did	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 did	cc
18	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 worked	conj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 work	det:predet
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 work	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 work	amod
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 work	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 house	punct
24	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 did	obj
25	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	18 did	advmod
26	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 as	fixed
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 did	advcl
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 wife	det
32	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 do	mark
34	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 wife	acl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 do	obj
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 do	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	man	a steady industrious man		tree rules
2	work	past	a steady industrious man		at man's trade; hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at trade=Theme
3	do	past	a steady industrious man not said here	man's own house work		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
4	have	past	man	no wife		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
5	do	to-infinitive	man not said here	work	for man	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	trade		man			nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent
7	work		man			nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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