--- title: ‘What an excellent industrious man is this Hok Lee!’ said his neighb… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘What an excellent industrious man is this Hok Lee!’ said his neighbours; ‘how hard he works: he never leaves his house to amuse himself or to take a holiday as others do!’ Who acts: excellent industrious man, man, house, others. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/31/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/31/) / 3 # The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 3 ‘What an excellent industrious man is this Hok Lee!’ said his neighbours; ‘how hard he works: he never leaves his house to amuse himself or to take a holiday as others do!’ **Who acts:** excellent industrious man, man, house, others · **What happens:** be, say, work, not leave, amuse, take · **To what, where:** Hok Lee, neighbours, house, man, holiday · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (excellent industrious man, man, house, others), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:31:3 # text = ‘What an excellent industrious man is this Hok Lee!’ said his neighbours; ‘how hard he works: he never leaves his house to amuse himself or to take a holiday as others do!’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 What what PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj:outer _ _ 3 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 excellent excellent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 industrious industrious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 nsubj _ _ 9 Hok Hok PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Lee Lee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ! ! PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 neighbours neighbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 17 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 19 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 amuse amuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 30 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 29 obj _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ! ! PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a excellent industrious man | Hok Lee | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | man's neighbours | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **work** | present | man | | | | | hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **leave** | present | man | man's house | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **amuse** | to-infinitive | man's house *not said here* | man | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | | 6 | **take** | to-infinitive | man's house *not said here* | a holiday | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holiday=Theme | | 7 | **do** | present | others | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/31/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/31/4/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/31/)