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title: With that, he and all the other dwarfs sat down in a large ring, lea… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With that, he and all the other dwarfs sat down in a large ring, leaving Hok Lee to dance alone in the middle. Who acts: heart, Hok Lee. 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 46

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With that, he and all the other dwarfs sat down in a large ring, leaving Hok Lee to dance alone in the middle.

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**Who acts:** heart, Hok Lee · **What happens:** sit down, leave, dance · **To what, where:** large ring, Hok Lee, middle

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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 (heart, Hok Lee), 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:pg7277:31:46
# text = With that, he and all the other dwarfs sat down in a large ring, leaving Hok Lee to dance alone in the middle.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
10	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
18	Hok	Hok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
22	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | heart |  |  | a large ring |  | with that | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ring=Location |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | heart *not said here* | Hok Lee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dance** | to-infinitive | Hok Lee *not said here* |  |  | the middle |  | alone *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=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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