The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 110
Chief among them was one Rei, a man of much cunning, who sought to discover whence sprang Gopani-Kufa's power.
Who acts: Chief, one Rei · What happens: be, seek, discover, spring · To what, where: one Rei, power
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 (Chief, one Rei), 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 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Rei | nsubj |
| 2 | among | among | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Chief | nmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Rei | cop |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 Rei | nummod |
| 6 | Rei | rei | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Rei | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cunning | case |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cunning | amod |
| 12 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sought | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 sought | nsubj |
| 15 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Rei | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 discover | mark |
| 17 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sought | xcomp |
| 18 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 sprang | advmod |
| 19 | sprang | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 discover | advcl |
| 20 | Gopani | Gopani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Kufa | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Gopani | punct |
| 22 | Kufa | Kufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 power | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Kufa | case |
| 24 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sprang | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Rei | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Chief among men | one Rei | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seek | past | one Rei | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | discover not said to happen | to-infinitive | one Rei not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | spring | gerund | one Rei not said here | Gopani Kufa's power | whence property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location power=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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