The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 6

This state of things went on for some time, and, though a thief was caught now and then and punished, no suspicion ever fell on Hok Lee, he was such a very respectable, hard-working man.

Who acts: state, suspicion · What happens: go on, catch, punish, fall, work, be · To what, where: thief, Hok Lee, respectable working man

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 (state, suspicion), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 state	det
2	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 things	case
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 state	nmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 went	compound:prt
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 caught	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 caught	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 caught	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 caught	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 thief	det
15	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 caught	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 caught	aux:pass
17	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 went	parataxis
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 caught	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 then	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 now	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 punished	cc
22	punished	punish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 caught	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fell	punct
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 suspicion	det
25	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	nsubj
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 fell	advmod
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 punished	conj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 Lee	case
29	Hok	Hok	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Lee	compound
30	Lee	Lee	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 fell	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 man	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 man	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 man	cop
34	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	42 man	det:predet
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 man	det
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 respectable	advmod
37	respectable	respectable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 man	amod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 respectable	punct
39	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 working	amod
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 hard	punct
41	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 man	amod
42	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go on	past	this state of things			time	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	past · passive		a thief		now	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	punish	past					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	fall	past	no suspicion		Hok Lee	ever	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on lee=Location
5	work	gerund					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	suspicion	such respectable working man			tree rules

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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