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title: Then another and another came to Hok Lee to beg his secret, and from… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then another and another came to Hok Lee to beg his secret, and from each he extracted a vow of secrecy and a large sum of money. Who acts: another, Hok. 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 cla
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 79

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Then another and another came to Hok Lee to beg his secret, and from each he extracted a vow of secrecy and a large sum of money.

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**Who acts:** another, Hok · **What happens:** come, beg, extract, vow, sum · **To what, where:** Hok, secret, vow, each, secrecy, money

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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 (another, Hok), 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:pg7277:31:79
# text = Then another and another came to Hok Lee to beg his secret, and from each he extracted a vow of secrecy and a large sum of money.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	conj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Hok	Hok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	obl	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	extracted	extract	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	secrecy	secrecy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | another |  |  | Hok | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hok=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | to-infinitive | another *not said here* | Hok's secret |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent secret=Recipient |
| 3 | **extract** | past | Hok | a vow of secrecy and a large sum of money |  | each |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent vow=Theme from each=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **vow** |  |  | secrecy |  |  |  |  | nom vow «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **sum** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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