The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 51

First he hopped on one foot and then on the other, but he was so stiff and so nervous that he made but a poor attempt, and after a time sank down on the ground and vowed he could dance no more.

Who acts: despair · What happens: hop, be, make, sink down, vow, dance · To what, where: one foot, poor attempt, ground, more

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 (despair), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 hopped	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hopped	nsubj
3	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 foot	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 foot	nummod
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hopped	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 other	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 other	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 other	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hopped	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stiff	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 stiff	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stiff	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stiff	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 stiff	advmod
17	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hopped	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 nervous	cc
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 nervous	advmod
20	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stiff	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 made	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 made	nsubj
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 nervous	advcl
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 attempt	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 attempt	det
26	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 attempt	amod
27	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sank	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sank	cc
30	after	after	ADP	_	32 time	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 time	det
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sank	obl
33	sank	sink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hopped	advcl
34	down	down	ADP	_	33 sank	compound:prt
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 ground	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ground	det
37	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sank	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 vowed	cc
39	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sank	conj
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 dance	nsubj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 dance	aux
42	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 vowed	ccomp
43	no	no	ADV	_	44 more	advmod
44	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	42 dance	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop	past	despair		one foot		first property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Trajectory
2	is	past	despair				stiff property	tree rules
3	be		despair not said here					tree rules
4	make	past	despair	a poor attempt				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	sink down	participle	despair not said here		the ground	time		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	vow	past	despair not said here					tree rules
7	dance	could	despair	more				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=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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