The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 76
Hok Lee consented on condition that he swore to keep the secret.
Who acts: Hok · What happens: consent, swear, keep · To what, where: condition, secret
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 (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 | Hok | Hok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 consented | nsubj |
| 2 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Hok | flat |
| 3 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 condition | case |
| 5 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consented | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 swore | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 swore | nsubj |
| 8 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 consented | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 keep | mark |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 swore | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 secret | det |
| 12 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | Hok | condition | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | swear | past | Hok | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | Hok not said here | the secret | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme |
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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