The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 69
Then the leader of the dwarfs said, ‘We are well pleased, Hok Lee, and as a recompense for thy dancing thy face shall be cured.
Who acts: leader, We, thy · What happens: say, be, dance, cure · To what, where: face, recompense · 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 (leader, We, thy), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 leader | det |
| 3 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 dwarfs | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dwarfs | det |
| 6 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 leader | nmod |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pleased | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 pleased | punct |
| 10 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 pleased | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pleased | cop |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 pleased | advmod |
| 13 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Lee | punct |
| 15 | Hok | Hok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Lee | compound |
| 16 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 pleased | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 recompense | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 recompense | cc |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 recompense | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 recompense | det |
| 21 | recompense | recompense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cured | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 dancing | case |
| 23 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 dancing | nsubj |
| 24 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 recompense | nmod |
| 25 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 face | nmod:poss |
| 26 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dancing | obj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 cured | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 cured | aux:pass |
| 29 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the leader of the dwarfs | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | We | Hok Lee obl; pleased, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dance | gerund | thy | thy face | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location face=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cure | shall · passive | a recompense | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source |
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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