The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 62
Ere long the dwarfs came trooping out till all were assembled.
Who acts: dwarfs · What happens: come, troop out, assemble · To what, where: all
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 (dwarfs), 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 | Ere | ere | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 came | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dwarfs | det |
| 4 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | trooping | troop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 came | xcomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 trooping | compound:prt |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 assembled | mark |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 assembled | aux:pass |
| 11 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 trooping | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the dwarfs | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | troop out | gerund | the dwarfs not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | assemble | past · passive | all | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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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