The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 22

Then Hok Lee and the doctor began to bargain together, and it was a long time before they could come to terms.

Who acts: Hok, deed, drugs · What happens: begin, bargain, be, come · To what, where: long time

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, deed, drugs), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 began	advmod
2	Hok	Hok	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 began	nsubj
3	Lee	Lee	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Hok	flat
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 doctor	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doctor	det
6	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hok	conj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 bargain	mark
9	bargain	bargain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	together	together	ADV	_	9 bargain	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 time	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 time	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 time	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 time	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 time	det
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	obl
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 come	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 come	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 time	acl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 terms	case
23	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Hok and the doctor		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	bargain	to-infinitive	Hok and the doctor not said here			together property	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	deed	a long time			tree rules
4	come	could	drugs = drug	a long time not said here		to terms	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme

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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