The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 64

When Hok Lee heard this he came forward and bent down to the ground before the dwarfs, who came crowding round, and laughed heartily at his comical appearance with his two big cheeks.

Who acts: Hok, dwarfs · What happens: hear, come forward, bend down, come, crowd, laugh · To what, where: this, comical appearance

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, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	Hok	Hok	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
3	Lee	Lee	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Hok	flat
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 heard	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	forward	forward	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bent	cc
10	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 bent	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 ground	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ground	det
14	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bent	obl
15	before	before	ADP	_	17 dwarfs	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dwarfs	det
17	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bent	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dwarfs	acl:relcl
21	crowding	crowd	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 came	xcomp
22	round	round	ADV	_	21 crowding	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 laughed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 laughed	cc
25	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
26	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	25 laughed	advmod
27	at	at	ADP	_	30 appearance	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 appearance	nmod:poss
29	comical	comical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 appearance	amod
30	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 laughed	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	35 cheeks	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 cheeks	nmod:poss
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 cheeks	nummod
34	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 cheeks	amod
35	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 laughed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Hok	this				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	come forward	past	Hok				forward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bend down	past	Hok not said here			before the dwarfs	to the ground; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before dwarf=Location
4	come	past	the dwarfs					tree rules
5	crowd	gerund	the dwarfs not said here				round property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
6	laugh	past	Hok not said here		Hok's comical appearance		with Hok's two big cheeks; heartily property	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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