The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 66

Now, Hok Lee knew how much depended on his dancing well, so he plucked up a good spirit and began, first quite slowly, and faster by degrees, and he danced so well and gracefully, and made such new and wonderful steps, that the dwarfs were quite delighted with him.

Who acts: Hok, dwarfs · What happens: know, depend, pluck up, begin, dance, make · To what, where: much, good spirit, such new steps

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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 knew	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	Hok	Hok	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 knew	nsubj
4	Lee	Lee	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Hok	flat
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 knew	obj
8	depended	depend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 much	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 dancing	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dancing	nmod:poss
11	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 depended	obl
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 depended	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 plucked	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 plucked	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 plucked	nsubj
16	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knew	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 plucked	compound:prt
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 spirit	det
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 spirit	amod
20	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 plucked	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 began	cc
22	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knew	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 slowly	punct
24	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 slowly	advmod
25	quite	quite	ADV	_	26 slowly	advmod
26	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	22 began	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 faster	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 faster	cc
29	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 began	parataxis
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 degrees	case
31	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 faster	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 danced	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 danced	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 danced	nsubj
35	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knew	parataxis
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 well	advmod
37	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 danced	advmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 gracefully	cc
39	gracefully	gracefully	ADV	_	37 well	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 made	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 made	cc
42	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 danced	conj
43	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 steps	amod
44	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 steps	amod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 wonderful	cc
46	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 new	conj
47	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 made	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 delighted	punct
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 delighted	mark
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 dwarfs	det
51	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 delighted	nsubj
52	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 delighted	cop
53	quite	quite	ADV	_	54 delighted	advmod
54	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 made	conj
55	with	with	ADP	_	56 him	case
56	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 delighted	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	Hok	much	now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus
2	depend	participle				on Hok's dancing; well property	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on dancing=Theme
3	pluck up	past	Hok	a good spirit			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient
4	begin	past	Hok not said here			slowly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	dance	past	Hok			well property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	make	past	Hok not said here	such new steps			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset step=Product
7	is	past	the dwarfs			with Hok; delighted property	tree rules
8	dance		Hok				nom dancing «act transitive»: poss=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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