The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 65

‘What dost thou want?’ they asked; and Hok Lee proceeded to tell them of his fresh misfortunes, and begged so hard to be allowed one more trial at dancing that the dwarfs consented, for there is nothing they love so much as being amused.

Who acts: thou, dwarfs, Hok, nothing · What happens: want, ask, proceed, tell, beg, allow · To what, where: dwarfs, one more trial, dancing, much · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (thou, dwarfs, Hok, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 want	obj
3	dost	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	ccomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	nsubj
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 begged	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 proceeded	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Hok	cc
12	Hok	Hok	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 proceeded	nsubj
13	Lee	Lee	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Hok	flat
14	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 tell	mark
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 proceeded	xcomp
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 misfortunes	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 misfortunes	nmod:poss
20	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 misfortunes	amod
21	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tell	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 begged	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 begged	cc
24	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 hard	advmod
26	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 begged	xcomp
27	to	to	PART	_	29 allowed	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 allowed	aux:pass
29	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 hard	advcl
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 trial	nummod
31	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 trial	amod
32	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 allowed	obl
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 dancing	case
34	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 allowed	obl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 consented	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 dwarfs	det
37	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 consented	nsubj
38	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 dancing	acl:relcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 is	punct
40	for	for	ADP	_	42 is	case
41	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	42 is	expl
42	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 consented	ccomp
43	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	42 is	nsubj
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 love	nsubj
45	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 nothing	acl:relcl
46	so	so	ADV	_	47 much	advmod
47	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 love	obj
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 amused	mark
49	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 amused	aux:pass
50	amused	amuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 much	advcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	thou					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	dwarfs = dwarf					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	proceed	past	Hok					vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Hok not said here		dwarfs = dwarf		of Hok's fresh misfortunes	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	beg speech: request	past					hard property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
6	allow	to-infinitive · passive		one more trial		dancing		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»
7	consent	past	the dwarfs	dancing not said here				tree rules
8	be	present	nothing			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	love	present	dwarfs = dwarf	much				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus
10	amuse	gerund · passive	dwarfs = dwarf not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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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