The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 35

They seemed in high glee, and danced and skipped and capered about, whilst Hok Lee grew so eager watching them that he crept further and further along his branch till at length it gave a loud crack.

Who acts: dwarfs, Hok, length · What happens: seem, dance, skip, caper, grow, watch · To what, where: dwarfs, loud crack

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 (dwarfs, Hok, length), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 glee	case
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 glee	amod
5	glee	glee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 danced	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 danced	cc
8	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 skipped	cc
10	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 danced	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 capered	cc
12	capered	caper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 danced	conj
13	about	about	ADV	_	12 capered	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grew	punct
15	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	18 grew	mark
16	Hok	Hok	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 grew	nsubj
17	Lee	Lee	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Hok	flat
18	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 capered	conj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 eager	advmod
20	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grew	xcomp
21	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 eager	xcomp
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 watching	obj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 crept	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 crept	nsubj
25	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 eager	advcl
26	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 crept	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 branch	cc
28	further	further	ADV	_	31 branch	advmod
29	along	along	ADP	_	31 branch	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 branch	nmod:poss
31	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 further	conj
32	till	till	ADP	_	34 length	case
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 length	case
34	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 crept	obl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 gave	nsubj
36	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 length	acl:relcl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 crack	det
38	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 crack	amod
39	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gave	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	dwarfs = dwarf			in high glee	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in glee=Attribute
2	dance	past					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	skip	past					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	caper	past				about property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	grow	past	Hok			eager property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	watch	gerund	Hok not said here	dwarfs = dwarf			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	creep	past	Hok		till length	far property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	give	past	length	a loud crack			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crack=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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