The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 23
However, the doctor got the better of it in the end, for he was determined not to part with his secret under a certain price, and Hok Lee had no mind to carry his huge cheek about with him to the end of his days.
Who acts: doctor, Hok, mind · What happens: get, be, have, carry · To what, where: end, certain price, mind, huge cheek
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, Hok, mind), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 doctor | det |
| 4 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 better | det |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 got | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 better | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 end | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 end | det |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 determined | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 determined | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 determined | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 determined | cop |
| 17 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 got | conj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 part | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 part | mark |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 determined | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 secret | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 secret | nmod:poss |
| 23 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 determined | obl |
| 24 | under | under | ADP | _ | 27 price | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 price | det |
| 26 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 price | amod |
| 27 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 determined | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 had | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 had | cc |
| 30 | Hok | Hok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 had | nsubj |
| 31 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Hok | flat |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 33 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 34 mind | det |
| 34 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 had | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 carry | mark |
| 36 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 had | xcomp |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 38 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 cheek | amod |
| 39 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 carry | obj |
| 40 | about | about | ADV | _ | 36 carry | advmod |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 him | case |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 carry | obl |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 end | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 end | det |
| 45 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 carry | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 days | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 days | nmod:poss |
| 48 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 end | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the doctor | in the end | good, however property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is | past | doctor | a certain price | with doctor's secret; part obl; determined property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | past | Hok | no mind | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | carry | to-infinitive | no mind not said here | Hok's huge cheek | to the end of Hok's days | with Hok; about property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cheek=Theme to end=Destination |
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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