The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 4
But Hok Lee was by no means the virtuous person his neighbours thought him.
Who acts: no, neighbours · What happens: be, think · To what, where: person
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 (no, neighbours), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 means | cc |
| 2 | Hok | Hok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Lee | compound |
| 3 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | cop |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 means | mark |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 means | nsubj |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 9 | virtuous | virtuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 person | amod |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 12 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 person | acl:relcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | no | Hok Lee obl; mean property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Lee's neighbours | person | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=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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