The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 56

He hobbled away, weary and depressed, and not a little anxious on account of the dwarfs’ threat.

Who acts: Hok · What happens: hobble away, account · To what, where: threat

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 (Hok), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hobbled	nsubj
2	hobbled	hobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 hobbled	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 weary	punct
5	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hobbled	parataxis
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 depressed	cc
7	depressed	depressed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 weary	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 anxious	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 anxious	cc
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 anxious	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 little	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 anxious	obl:unmarked
13	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hobbled	parataxis
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 account	case
15	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 anxious	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 threat	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dwarfs	det
18	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 threat	nmod:poss
19	’	's	PART	_	18 dwarfs	case
20	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 account	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hobbled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hobble away	past	Hok					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	account			the dwarfs's threat					nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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