The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 39

In great terror, Hok Lee proceeded to come down; but he was so nervous that he tripped near the ground and came rolling down in the most absurd manner.

Who acts: Hok · What happens: proceed, come down, be, trip, come, roll down · To what, where: great terror, ground, absurd manner

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	In	in	ADP	_	3 terror	case
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 terror	amod
3	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 proceeded	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 terror	punct
5	Hok	Hok	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 proceeded	nsubj
6	Lee	Lee	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Hok	flat
7	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 come	mark
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 proceeded	xcomp
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 nervous	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 nervous	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 nervous	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 nervous	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 nervous	advmod
16	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 proceeded	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 tripped	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tripped	nsubj
19	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 nervous	advcl
20	near	near	ADP	_	22 ground	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ground	det
22	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tripped	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 tripped	conj
25	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 came	advcl
26	down	down	ADV	_	25 rolling	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	31 manner	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 manner	det
29	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	30 absurd	advmod
30	absurd	absurd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 manner	amod
31	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rolling	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 proceeded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	proceed	past	Hok	great terror		vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	come down	to-infinitive	Hok not said here		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	Hok		nervous property	tree rules
4	trip	past	Hok	the ground		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near ground=Trajectory
5	come	past	Hok not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	roll down	gerund	Hok not said here	the absurd manner	down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Trajectory

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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