The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 74
His neighbours questioned him, but could get nothing from him, except the fact that he had discovered a wonderful cure for all kinds of diseases.
Who acts: neighbours, Lee · What happens: question, get, discover · To what, where: Lee, nothing, wonderful cure
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 (neighbours, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 2 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 questioned | nsubj |
| 3 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 questioned | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 get | cc |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | aux |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 questioned | conj |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 get | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 get | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fact | punct |
| 13 | except | except | ADP | _ | 15 fact | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fact | det |
| 15 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 discovered | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 discovered | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 discovered | aux |
| 19 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 fact | acl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cure | det |
| 21 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cure | amod |
| 22 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 discovered | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 kinds | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 kinds | det |
| 25 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 discovered | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 diseases | case |
| 27 | diseases | disease | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 kinds | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 questioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | question speech: other | past | Lee's neighbours | Lee | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | get | could | Lee's neighbours not said here | nothing | from Lee | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme from he=Source | |||
| 3 | discover | past · perfect | Lee | a wonderful cure | for all kinds of diseases | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cure=Topic |
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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