The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 103
And when the people of the new town beheld Gopani-Kufa they rejoiced greatly and hailed him as chief.
Who acts: people · What happens: behold, rejoice, hail · To what, where: Gopani
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 (people), 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 | _ | 14 rejoiced | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 beheld | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 beheld | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 town | amod |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 people | nmod |
| 9 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 rejoiced | parataxis |
| 10 | Gopani | Gopani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 beheld | obj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Kufa | punct |
| 12 | Kufa | Kufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Gopani | flat |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 14 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 14 rejoiced | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hailed | cc |
| 17 | hailed | hail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 rejoiced | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hailed | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 chief | case |
| 20 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hailed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | participle | the people of the new town | Gopani | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gopani=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rejoice | past | people | greatly property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | hail | past | people not said here | Gopani | as chief | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as chief=Attribute |
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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