The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 72
The way home seemed short and easy to him, and he went to bed happy, and resolved never to go out robbing again.
Who acts: way, Lee · What happens: seem, go, resolve, not go out, rob · To what, where: bed
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 (way, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 seemed | advmod |
| 4 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 seemed | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 easy | cc |
| 7 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 short | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 easy | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seemed | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 bed | case |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 16 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 went | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 resolved | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 resolved | cc |
| 19 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seemed | conj |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 go | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 resolved | ccomp |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 go | advmod |
| 24 | robbing | rob | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 go | advcl |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 robbing | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the way | home, short property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Lee | bed | happy property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | resolve | past | the way not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not go out | to-infinitive | the way not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | rob | gerund | the way not said here | again | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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