--- title: They seemed in high glee, and danced and skipped and capered about,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They seemed in high glee, and danced and skipped and capered about, whilst Hok Lee grew so eager watching them that he crept further and further along his branch till at length it gave a loud crack. Who acts: dwarfs, Hok, length. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarfs, Hok, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:31:35 # text = They seemed in high glee, and danced and skipped and capered about, whilst Hok Lee grew so eager watching them that he crept further and further along his branch till at length it gave a loud crack. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 glee glee NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 skipped skip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 capered caper VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 whilst whilst SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 Hok Hok PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 Lee Lee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 18 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 eager eager ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 21 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 xcomp _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 26 further far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 further further ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 along along ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 32 till till ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 crack crack NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | past | dwarfs *= dwarf* | | | | | in high glee | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in glee=Attribute | | 2 | **dance** | past | | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **skip** | past | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **caper** | past | | | | | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **grow** | past | Hok | | | | | eager *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **watch** | gerund | Hok *not said here* | dwarfs *= dwarf* | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 7 | **creep** | past | Hok | | | | till length | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **give** | past | length | a loud crack | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crack=Theme | 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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/31/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/31/36/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/31/)