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title: With these words he and the other dwarfs vanished, and Hok Lee, putt… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With these words he and the other dwarfs vanished, and Hok Lee, putting his hands to his face, found to his great joy that his cheeks were reduced to their natural size. Who acts: recompense, Hok Lee, Lee. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, with
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 71

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With these words he and the other dwarfs vanished, and Hok Lee, putting his hands to his face, found to his great joy that his cheeks were reduced to their natural size.

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**Who acts:** recompense, Hok Lee, Lee · **What happens:** vanish, put, find, reduce, joy · **To what, where:** hands, cheeks, natural size

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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 (recompense, Hok Lee, 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:pg7277:31:71
# text = With these words he and the other dwarfs vanished, and Hok Lee, putting his hands to his face, found to his great joy that his cheeks were reduced to their natural size.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	Hok	Hok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	ccomp	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	reduced	reduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | past | recompense |  |  |  |  | with this words | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | gerund | Hok Lee | Lee's hands |  |  |  | to Lee's face | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
| 3 | **find** | participle | Hok Lee *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Lee's great joy | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **reduce** | past · passive |  | Lee's cheeks |  |  |  | to dwarfs's natural size *goal* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Patient to size=Goal |
| 5 | **joy** |  | Lee |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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