The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 57

Nor were his fears unfounded, for when he rose next morning his left cheek was swelled up as big as his right, and he could hardly see out of his eyes.

Who acts: Nor · What happens: be, rise, swell up, see out, fear · To what, where: left cheek, eyes

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 (Nor), 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	Nor	Nor	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 unfounded	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 unfounded	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 fears	nmod:poss
4	fears	fear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 unfounded	nsubj
5	unfounded	unfounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rose	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 rose	mark
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 rose	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rose	nsubj
10	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 unfounded	conj
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 morning	amod
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rose	obl:unmarked
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 cheek	nmod:poss
14	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cheek	amod
15	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swelled	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 swelled	aux:pass
17	swelled	swell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 rose	ccomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 swelled	compound:prt
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 big	advmod
20	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 swelled	xcomp
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 right	mark
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 right	nmod:poss
23	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 big	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 see	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 see	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 see	aux
28	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	29 see	advmod
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 unfounded	parataxis
30	out	out	ADP	_	33 eyes	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 eyes	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 eyes	nmod:poss
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 see	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 unfounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Nor			unfounded property	tree rules
2	rise	past	Nor		morning		tree rules
3	swell up	past · passive		Nor's left cheek		big property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent
4	see out	could	Nor	Nor's eyes		hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus
5	fear		Nor				nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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