The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 58
Hok Lee felt in despair, and his neighbours jeered at him more than ever.
Who acts: Hok, neighbours · What happens: feel, jeer
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, neighbours), 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 | Hok | Hok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Hok | flat |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 despair | case |
| 5 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 jeered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 jeered | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 9 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 jeered | nsubj |
| 10 | jeered | jeer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 jeered | obl |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 jeered | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 ever | case |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 more | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Hok | in despair | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in despair=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | jeer | past | Hok's neighbours | at Hok | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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