The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 79
Then another and another came to Hok Lee to beg his secret, and from each he extracted a vow of secrecy and a large sum of money.
Who acts: another, Hok · What happens: come, beg, extract, vow, sum · To what, where: Hok, secret, vow, each, secrecy, money
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 (another, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 5 came | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 another | cc |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 another | conj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Hok | case |
| 7 | Hok | Hok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Hok | flat |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 beg | mark |
| 10 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 secret | nmod:poss |
| 12 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beg | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 extracted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 extracted | cc |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 each | case |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 extracted | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 extracted | nsubj |
| 18 | extracted | extract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 vow | det |
| 20 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 extracted | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 secrecy | case |
| 22 | secrecy | secrecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 vow | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sum | cc |
| 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 | 20 vow | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 money | case |
| 28 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sum | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | another | Hok | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hok=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | another not said here | Hok's secret | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent secret=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | extract | past | Hok | a vow of secrecy and a large sum of money | each | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent vow=Theme from each=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | vow | secrecy | nom vow «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | 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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