The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 80
This went on for some years, so that at length Hok Lee became a very wealthy man, and ended his days in peace and prosperity.
Who acts: This, length · What happens: go on, become, end · To what, where: wealthy man, peace
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 (This, length), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 years | det |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 became | punct |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 became | mark |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 so | fixed |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 length | case |
| 11 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 became | nsubj |
| 12 | Hok | Hok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 length | appos |
| 13 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Hok | flat |
| 14 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 wealthy | advmod |
| 17 | wealthy | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 became | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ended | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ended | cc |
| 21 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 became | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 days | nmod:poss |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ended | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 peace | case |
| 25 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ended | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 prosperity | cc |
| 27 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 peace | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | This | year | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | length | a wealthy man | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | end | past | length not said here | peace and prosperity | day | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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