The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 67

They clapped their tiny hands, and shouted, ‘Well done, Hok Lee, well done, go on, dance more, for we are pleased.’

Who acts: dwarfs, we · What happens: clap, shout, do, go on, dance, be · To what, where: tiny hands, Hok, more · 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 (dwarfs, we), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 clapped	nsubj
2	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hands	amod
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clapped	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shouted	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shouted	cc
8	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 clapped	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 done	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 done	punct
11	Well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 done	advmod
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 go	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Hok	punct
14	Hok	Hok	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 done	obl
15	Lee	Lee	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Hok	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 done	punct
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 done	advmod
18	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 Hok	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 done	punct
20	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 shouted	ccomp
21	on	on	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dance	punct
23	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 go	conj
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 dance	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pleased	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 pleased	mark
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 pleased	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 pleased	cop
29	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dance	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 clapped	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 clapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	clap	past	dwarfs = dwarf	dwarfs's tiny hands		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
2	shout speech: express	past	dwarfs = dwarf not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	participle		Hok	well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do	participle		Hok not said here	well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go on	infinitive				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	dance	infinitive		more		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme
7	is	present	we		pleased property	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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