The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 75

After a time a rich neighbour, who had been ill for some years, came, and offered to give Hok Lee a large sum of money if he would tell him how he might get cured.

Who acts: rich neighbour, Hok · What happens: be, come, offer, give, tell, cure · To what, where: large sum, Hok, Lee, money · 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 (rich neighbour, Hok), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 neighbour	det
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 neighbour	amod
6	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ill	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 ill	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ill	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 ill	cop
11	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 neighbour	acl:relcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 years	case
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 years	det
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ill	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 years	punct
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 offered	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 offered	cc
19	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 came	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 give	mark
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 offered	xcomp
22	Hok	Hok	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 give	obj
23	Lee	Lee	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Hok	flat
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 sum	det
25	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sum	amod
26	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 money	case
28	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sum	nmod
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 tell	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 tell	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	aux
32	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 give	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 tell	iobj
34	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	38 cured	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 cured	nsubj:pass
36	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 cured	aux
37	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 cured	aux:pass
38	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 tell	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	a rich neighbour			year	ill property	tree rules
2	come	past	a rich neighbour			time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	offer	participle	a rich neighbour not said here					tree rules
4	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	a rich neighbour not said here	a large sum of money	Hok			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent hok=Recipient sum=Theme
5	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	would	Hok		Lee			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	cure	might · passive		Lee				vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source
7	sum			money				nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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