The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 26

After a time he would see the dwarfs and little sprites who live underground come out to dance.

Who acts: doctor, dwarfs · What happens: see, live, come out, dance · To what, where: dwarfs

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, dwarfs), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dwarfs	det
8	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sprites	cc
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sprites	amod
11	sprites	sprite	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dwarfs	conj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 live	nsubj
13	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dwarfs	acl:relcl
14	underground	underground	ADV	_	13 live	advmod
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 live	xcomp
16	out	out	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 dance	mark
18	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 come	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	doctor	the dwarfs and little sprites	time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dwarf=Stimulus
2	live	present	the dwarfs and little sprites			underground property	tree rules
3	come out	infinitive	the dwarfs and little sprites not said here			out property	tree rules
4	dance	to-infinitive	the dwarfs and little sprites not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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