The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 77
He did so, and Hok Lee told him of the dwarfs and their dances.
Who acts: Hok, dwarfs · What happens: do, tell, dance · To what, where: Lee · 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 (Hok, dwarfs), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 told | cc |
| 6 | Hok | Hok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 told | nsubj |
| 7 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Hok | flat |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 dwarfs | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dwarfs | det |
| 12 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 told | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dances | cc |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 dances | nmod:poss |
| 15 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dwarfs | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Hok | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Hok | Lee | of the dwarfs and dwarfs's dances | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | dance | dwarfs = dwarf | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=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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