The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 54
‘Thou to come here to be cured, indeed!’ they cried, ‘thou hast brought one big cheek with thee, but thou shalt take away two.’
Who acts: Thou, dwarfs · What happens: come, cure, cry, bring, take away · To what, where: thou, two · 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 (Thou, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 come | mark |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 cried | parataxis |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 cured | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cured | aux:pass |
| 8 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 come | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 indeed | punct |
| 10 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 8 cured | advmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cried | nsubj |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 brought | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 brought | punct |
| 17 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 brought | aux:pass |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 cried | ccomp |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 cheek | nummod |
| 21 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cheek | amod |
| 22 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 thee | case |
| 24 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 cheek | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 take | cc |
| 27 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 take | nsubj |
| 28 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 29 take | aux |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 cried | parataxis |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 take | advmod |
| 31 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 take | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | to-infinitive | Thou | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cure | to-infinitive · passive | Thou not said here | indeed property | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme» | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | dwarfs = dwarf | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bring | present · passive | thou | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination cheek=Theme | |||||
| 5 | take away | shall | thou | two | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=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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