The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 37
Then one of the dwarfs called out, ‘Someone is up in that tree.
Who acts: Someone · What happens: call out, be · To what, where: dwarfs, tree
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 (Someone), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 dwarfs | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dwarfs | det |
| 5 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 dwarfs | acl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 called | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tree | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 tree | punct |
| 10 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 tree | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 tree | cop |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 tree | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 one | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | participle | the dwarfs not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Someone | that tree | tree rules |
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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