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title: Then Hok Lee and the doctor began to bargain together, and it was a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Hok Lee and the doctor began to bargain together, and it was a long time before they could come to terms. Who acts: Hok, deed, drugs. 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 22

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Then Hok Lee and the doctor began to bargain together, and it was a long time before they could come to terms.

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**Who acts:** Hok, deed, drugs · **What happens:** begin, bargain, be, come · **To what, where:** long time

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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 (Hok, deed, drugs), 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:pg7277:31:22
# text = Then Hok Lee and the doctor began to bargain together, and it was a long time before they could come to terms.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	Hok	Hok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	bargain	bargain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
18	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Hok and the doctor |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **bargain** | to-infinitive | Hok and the doctor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | deed | a long time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | could | drugs *= drug* | a long time *not said here* |  |  |  | to terms | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme |

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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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