The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 24
So he was obliged to part with the greater portion of his ill-gotten gains.
What happens: oblige, get · To what, where: Hok
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: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 obliged | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 obliged | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 obliged | aux:pass |
| 4 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 part | mark |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 obliged | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 portion | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 portion | det |
| 9 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 portion | amod |
| 10 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 part | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gains | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 gains | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 gotten | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 ill | punct |
| 15 | gotten | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 gains | amod |
| 16 | gains | gain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 portion | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | Hok | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | get | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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