The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 100
And Gopani-Kufa smiled, and took the Mirror and said to it:
Who acts: Gopani · What happens: smile, take, say · To what, where: Mirror · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gopani), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 smiled | cc |
| 2 | Gopani | Gopani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 smiled | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kufa | punct |
| 4 | Kufa | Kufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Gopani | flat |
| 5 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 smiled | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Mirror | det |
| 10 | Mirror | Mirror | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | Gopani | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | past | Gopani not said here | the Mirror | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mirror=Destination | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Gopani not said here | Mirror | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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