The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 108
Now it happened that, after many years, when the hair of Gopani-Kufa was turning grey with age, there came white men to that country.
Who acts: it, hair · What happens: happen, turn, come · To what, where: that, white men
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 (it, hair), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 happened | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 years | punct |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 years | amod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 turning | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 turning | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hair | det |
| 12 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turning | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Gopani | case |
| 14 | Gopani | Gopani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 hair | nmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Kufa | punct |
| 16 | Kufa | Kufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Gopani | conj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 turning | aux |
| 18 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 happened | advcl |
| 19 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 turning | xcomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 age | case |
| 21 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turning | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 came | punct |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 came | expl |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | conj |
| 25 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 men | amod |
| 26 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 came | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 country | case |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 country | det |
| 29 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | that | now; year | tree rules | |||
| 2 | turn | past · progressive | the hair of Gopani and Kufa | with age | grey property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | come | past | white men | there | to that country | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=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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