The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 53
They crowded round Hok Lee and abused him.
Who acts: dwarfs · What happens: crowd, abuse · To what, where: Hok
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 (dwarfs), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 crowded | nsubj |
| 2 | crowded | crowd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 4 Hok | case |
| 4 | Hok | Hok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 crowded | obl |
| 5 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Hok | flat |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 abused | cc |
| 7 | abused | abuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 crowded | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 abused | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 crowded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crowd | past | dwarfs = dwarf | round Hok | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round hok=Destination | ||||
| 2 | abuse | past | dwarfs = dwarf not said here | Hok | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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