The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 107
Then Shasasa took the Magic Mirror and hid it beneath her pillow, and after that for many years Gopani-Kufa ruled his people both well and wisely, so that all men loved him, and never once did he need to ask Sipao to grant him a wish.
Who acts: Shasasa, Gopani, men · What happens: take, hide, rule, love, need, ask · To what, where: Magic Mirror, Mirror, pillow, people, Gopani, Sipao
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 (Shasasa, Gopani, men), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Shasasa | Shasasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Mirror | det |
| 5 | Magic | Magic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mirror | compound |
| 6 | Mirror | Mirror | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hid | cc |
| 8 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hid | obj |
| 10 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 12 pillow | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 12 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hid | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ruled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ruled | cc |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 ruled | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 years | case |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 years | amod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ruled | obl |
| 20 | Gopani | Gopani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 ruled | nsubj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Kufa | punct |
| 22 | Kufa | Kufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Gopani | flat |
| 23 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 people | nmod:poss |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ruled | obj |
| 26 | both | both | ADV | _ | 27 well | advmod |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 ruled | advmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 wisely | cc |
| 29 | wisely | wisely | ADV | _ | 27 well | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 loved | punct |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 loved | advmod |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 loved | mark |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 men | det |
| 34 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 loved | nsubj |
| 35 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 loved | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 need | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 need | cc |
| 39 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 40 once | advmod |
| 40 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 43 need | advmod |
| 41 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 need | aux |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 need | nsubj |
| 43 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 ask | mark |
| 45 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 need | xcomp |
| 46 | Sipao | Sipao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 ask | obj |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 grant | mark |
| 48 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 ask | xcomp |
| 49 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 grant | obj |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 wish | det |
| 51 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 grant | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Shasasa | the Magic Mirror | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mirror=Destination | |||
| 2 | hide | past | Shasasa not said here | Mirror | Shasasa's pillow | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient beneath pillow=Location | |||
| 3 | rule | past | Gopani | Gopani's people | after that; year | well property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent people=Result | ||
| 4 | love | past | all men | Gopani | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | need | past · do-support | Gopani | once property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask not said to happen | to-infinitive | Gopani not said here | Sipao | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent sipao=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | grant not said to happen | to-infinitive | Gopani not said here | a wish | Gopani | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal wish=Theme |
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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