The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 33
He had hardly settled himself on a branch when he saw the little dwarfs assembling in the moonlight.
Who acts: doctor, little dwarfs · What happens: settle, see, assemble · To what, where: doctor, branch, little dwarfs, moonlight
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, little 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 settled | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 settled | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 settled | advmod |
| 4 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 settled | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 branch | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 branch | det |
| 8 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 settled | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 saw | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 settled | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dwarfs | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dwarfs | amod |
| 14 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 saw | obj |
| 15 | assembling | assemble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 dwarfs | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 moonlight | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 moonlight | det |
| 18 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 assembling | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | past · perfect | doctor | doctor | a branch | hardly property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme himself=Location | ||
| 2 | see | past | doctor | the little dwarfs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dwarf=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | assemble | gerund | the little dwarfs not said here | the moonlight | vn herd-47.5.2 «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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