The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 73
Next day the whole town was full of the news of Hok’s sudden cure.
Who acts: Next day · What happens: be
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 (Next day), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 full | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 town | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 town | amod |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 full | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 full | cop |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 news | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 news | det |
| 10 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 full | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cure | case |
| 12 | Hok | Hok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 cure | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Hok | case |
| 14 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cure | amod |
| 15 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 news | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Next day | of the news of Hok's sudden cure; full 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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