The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 49

‘Begin!’ cried their leader, and ‘Begin!’ shouted the rest in chorus.

Who acts: leader, rest · What happens: begin, cry, shout · To what, where: chorus

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 (leader, rest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:2447): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Begin	punct
2	Begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	parataxis
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Begin	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Begin	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 leader	nmod:poss
7	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shouted	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 shouted	cc
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 Begin	punct
11	Begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 shouted	parataxis
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 Begin	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 Begin	punct
14	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rest	det
16	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shouted	nsubj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 chorus	case
18	chorus	chorus	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shouted	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	begin	infinitive			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	past	dwarfs's leader		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	begin	infinitive			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	shout speech: express	past	the rest	chorus	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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