The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 71

With these words he and the other dwarfs vanished, and Hok Lee, putting his hands to his face, found to his great joy that his cheeks were reduced to their natural size.

Who acts: recompense, Hok Lee, Lee · What happens: vanish, put, find, reduce, joy · To what, where: hands, cheeks, natural size

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 (recompense, Hok Lee, Lee), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 vanished	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 vanished	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dwarfs	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dwarfs	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dwarfs	amod
8	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 he	conj
9	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 putting	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 putting	cc
12	Hok	Hok	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Lee	compound
13	Lee	Lee	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 putting	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 putting	punct
15	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 vanished	ccomp
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hands	nmod:poss
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 putting	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 face	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 face	nmod:poss
20	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 putting	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
22	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 putting	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 joy	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 joy	nmod:poss
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 joy	amod
26	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 found	obl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 reduced	mark
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 cheeks	nmod:poss
29	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 reduced	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 reduced	aux:pass
31	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 joy	acl
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 size	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 size	nmod:poss
34	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 size	amod
35	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 reduced	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 vanished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	recompense		with this words	tree rules
2	put	gerund	Hok Lee	Lee's hands	to Lee's face	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
3	find	participle	Hok Lee not said here		to Lee's great joy	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	reduce	past · passive		Lee's cheeks	to dwarfs's natural size goal	vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient to size=Goal
5	joy		Lee			nom joy «feeling 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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