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title: When the Doctor had pocketed the money, he told Hok Lee to go on the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Doctor had pocketed the money, he told Hok Lee to go on the first night of the full moon to a certain wood and there to watch by a particular tree. 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 pr
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 25

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When the Doctor had pocketed the money, he told Hok Lee to go on the first night of the full moon to a certain wood and there to watch by a particular tree.

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**Who acts:** Doctor · **What happens:** pocket, tell, go, watch · **To what, where:** money, Hok Lee, certain wood · **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:pg7277:31:25
# text = When the Doctor had pocketed the money, he told Hok Lee to go on the first night of the full moon to a certain wood and there to watch by a particular tree.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Doctor	Doctor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	pocketed	pocket	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Hok	Hok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	iobj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	30	expl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pocket** | past · perfect | the Doctor | the money |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | doctor |  | Hok Lee |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent lee=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | doctor *not said here* |  |  | a certain wood | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **watch** | to-infinitive | doctor *not said here* |  |  | there |  | by a particular tree | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tree=Location |

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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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