The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 59

The doctor, too, had disappeared, so there was nothing for it but to try the dwarfs once more.

Who acts: doctor, nothing · What happens: disappear, be, try · To what, where: dwarfs

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 (doctor, nothing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 doctor	det
2	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 disappeared	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 doctor	punct
4	too	too	ADV	_	2 doctor	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 doctor	punct
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 disappeared	aux
7	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 was	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 was	advmod
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 was	expl
11	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 disappeared	parataxis
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 was	nsubj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 nothing	nmod
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 try	cc
16	to	to	PART	_	17 try	mark
17	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 disappeared	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dwarfs	det
19	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 try	obj
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 more	advmod
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 try	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 disappeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	disappear	past · perfect	the doctor			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	past	nothing		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	try	to-infinitive	the doctor not said here	the dwarfs		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Eventuality

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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