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title: After the doctor had examined him carefully, he spoke thus: ‘This, O… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After the doctor had examined him carefully, he spoke thus: ‘This, O Hok Lee, is no ordinary swelled face. Who acts: doctor. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 19

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After the doctor had examined him carefully, he spoke thus: ‘This, O Hok Lee, is no ordinary swelled face.

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**Who acts:** doctor · **What happens:** examine, speak, be · **To what, where:** doctor, This, ordinary swelled face · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (doctor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:31:19
# text = After the doctor had examined him carefully, he spoke thus: ‘This, O Hok Lee, is no ordinary swelled face.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	examined	examine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Hok	Hok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
22	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	swelled	swelled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **examine** | past · perfect · passive |  | the doctor |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme he=Attribute |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | doctor | This |  |  |  | O Hok *obl*; thus *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | no ordinary swelled face |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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