The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 25

When the Doctor had pocketed the money, he told Hok Lee to go on the first night of the full moon to a certain wood and there to watch by a particular tree.

Who acts: Doctor · What happens: pocket, tell, go, watch · To what, where: money, Hok Lee, certain wood · 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 pocketed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Doctor	det
3	Doctor	Doctor	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pocketed	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pocketed	aux
5	pocketed	pocket	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 told	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 money	det
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pocketed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pocketed	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Hok	Hok	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Lee	compound
12	Lee	Lee	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 told	iobj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	xcomp
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 night	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 night	det
17	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 night	amod
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 moon	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 moon	det
21	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 moon	amod
22	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 night	nmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 wood	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 wood	det
25	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wood	amod
26	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 watch	cc
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 watch	expl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 watch	mark
30	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 go	conj
31	by	by	ADP	_	34 tree	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 tree	det
33	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 tree	amod
34	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 watch	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pocket	past · perfect	the Doctor	the money					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent money=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	doctor		Hok Lee				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent lee=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	doctor not said here			a certain wood	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
4	watch	to-infinitive	doctor not said here			there		by a particular tree	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tree=Location

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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