The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 109
Up the Zambesi they came, and they fought long and fiercely with Gopani-Kufa; but, because of the power of the Magic Mirror, he beat them, and they fled to the sea-coast.
Who acts: men, Gopani · What happens: come, fight, beat, flee · To what, where: Zambesi, men, sea coast
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 (men, 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 | Up | up | ADP | _ | 3 Zambesi | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Zambesi | det |
| 3 | Zambesi | Zambesi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fought | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fought | nsubj |
| 9 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 fought | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fiercely | cc |
| 12 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 10 long | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Gopani | case |
| 14 | Gopani | Gopani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 fought | obl |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Kufa | punct |
| 16 | Kufa | Kufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Gopani | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 beat | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 beat | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 but | punct |
| 20 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 23 power | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 because | fixed |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 power | det |
| 23 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 beat | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Mirror | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Mirror | det |
| 26 | Magic | Magic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Mirror | compound |
| 27 | Mirror | Mirror | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 power | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 power | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 beat | nsubj |
| 30 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 beat | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 fled | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 fled | cc |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 fled | nsubj |
| 35 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 coast | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 coast | det |
| 38 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 coast | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 sea | punct |
| 40 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fled | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | men = man | the Zambesi | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up zambesi=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | fight | past | men = man | with Gopani and Kufa; long property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with gopani=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | beat | past | Gopani | men = man | because the power of the Magic Mirror | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | |||
| 4 | flee | past | men = man | the sea coast | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to coast=Initial_Location |
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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