The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 5

True, he worked hard enough by day, but at night, when all respectable folk were fast asleep, he used to steal out and join a dangerous band of robbers, who broke into rich people’s houses and carried off all they could lay hands on.

Who acts: person, respectable folk, robbers, neighbours · What happens: work, be, use, steal out, join, break · To what, where: dangerous band, houses, all, hands

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 (person, respectable folk, robbers, 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	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 worked	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 worked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 worked	nsubj
4	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 worked	advmod
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 worked	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 day	case
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 used	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 used	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 night	case
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 used	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 asleep	punct
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 asleep	mark
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 folk	det
16	respectable	respectable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 folk	amod
17	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 asleep	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 asleep	cop
19	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 asleep	advmod
20	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 night	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 night	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 used	nsubj
23	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worked	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 steal	mark
25	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 used	xcomp
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 steal	compound:prt
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 join	cc
28	join	join	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 steal	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 band	det
30	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 band	amod
31	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 join	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 robbers	case
33	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 band	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 broke	punct
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 broke	nsubj
36	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 robbers	acl:relcl
37	into	into	ADP	_	41 houses	case
38	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 people	amod
39	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 houses	nmod:poss
40	’s	's	PART	_	39 people	case
41	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 broke	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 carried	cc
43	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worked	conj
44	off	off	ADP	_	43 carried	compound:prt
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 carried	obj
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 lay	nsubj
47	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 lay	aux
48	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 carried	advcl
49	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 lay	obj
50	on	on	ADV	_	48 lay	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 worked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	person		day	enough, hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	all respectable folk			asleep, fast property	tree rules
3	use	past	person		night		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	steal out	to-infinitive	person not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	join	infinitive	person not said here	a dangerous band of robbers			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Patient
6	break	past	robbers			into rich people's houses result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into house=Result
7	carry off	past	person not said here	all			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme
8	lay	could	neighbours = neighbour	hands			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Result

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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