The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 41

So Hok Lee told him the sad story of his swelled cheek, and how he had been advised to come to the forest and beg the dwarfs to cure him.

Who acts: Hok · What happens: tell, advise, come, beg, cure · To what, where: sad story, fun, Hok, forest, dwarfs · 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 told	advmod
2	Hok	Hok	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
3	Lee	Lee	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Hok	flat
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 story	amod
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 cheek	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cheek	nmod:poss
11	swelled	swelled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cheek	amod
12	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 story	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 advised	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 advised	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 advised	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 advised	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 advised	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 advised	aux:pass
19	advised	advise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 come	mark
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 advised	xcomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 forest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 forest	det
24	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 beg	cc
26	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dwarfs	det
28	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 beg	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 cure	mark
30	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 beg	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 cure	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Hok	the sad story of Hok's swelled cheek	fun		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
2	advise speech: other	past · perfect · passive		Hok			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	Hok not said here			the forest	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location
4	beg speech: request	infinitive	Hok not said here		the dwarfs		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent dwarf=Recipient
5	cure	to-infinitive	Hok not said here	Hok			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source

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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