The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 40
When he had picked himself up, he came forward with a low bow, and the dwarf who had first spoken and who appeared to be the leader, said, ‘Now, then, who art thou, and what brings thee here?’
Who acts: Hok · What happens: pick up, come forward, speak, appear, be, say · To what, where: Hok, dwarf, leader, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 picked | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 picked | aux |
| 4 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 came | advcl |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 picked | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 picked | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 picked | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 said | advcl |
| 10 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 bow | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bow | det |
| 13 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bow | amod |
| 14 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spoken | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 spoken | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dwarf | det |
| 18 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 spoken | aux |
| 21 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 spoken | advmod |
| 22 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 came | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 appeared | cc |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 appeared | nsubj |
| 25 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 spoken | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 leader | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 leader | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 leader | det |
| 29 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 appeared | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 said | punct |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 art | punct |
| 33 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 art | punct |
| 34 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 art | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Now | punct |
| 36 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 art | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 art | punct |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 art | nsubj |
| 39 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 said | ccomp |
| 40 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 39 art | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 brings | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 brings | cc |
| 43 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 44 brings | nsubj |
| 44 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 said | ccomp |
| 45 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 44 brings | obj |
| 46 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 brings | advmod |
| 47 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 44 brings | punct |
| 48 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past · perfect · passive | Hok | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come forward | past | Hok | with a low bow; forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the dwarf | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | appear | past | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | the leader | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | bring | present | thee | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thou=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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