The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 32
With a little trouble he found the tree the doctor had described, and, feeling nervous, he climbed up into it.
Who acts: Hok · What happens: find, describe, feel, climb up · To what, where: tree · 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 (Hok), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 trouble | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 trouble | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 trouble | amod |
| 4 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 described | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 doctor | det |
| 10 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 described | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 described | aux |
| 12 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 found | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 climbed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 climbed | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 feeling | punct |
| 16 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 climbed | advcl |
| 17 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feeling | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 feeling | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 climbed | nsubj |
| 20 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADV | _ | 20 climbed | advmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 climbed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Hok | with a little trouble | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | describe | past · perfect · passive | the tree | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | feel | gerund | Hok not said here | nervous property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | climb up | past | Hok | tree | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=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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