The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 42
A long, long while ago, before ever the White Men were seen in Senna, there lived a man called Gopani-Kufa.
What happens: see, live, call · To what, where: White Men, man, Senna · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 long | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 long | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 ago | mark |
| 6 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 long | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seen | punct |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 seen | mark |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 seen | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Men | det |
| 11 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Men | amod |
| 12 | Men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 seen | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux:pass |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 long | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Senna | case |
| 16 | Senna | Senna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 lived | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Senna | punct |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 lived | expl |
| 19 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lived | obj |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 man | acl |
| 23 | Gopani | Gopani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 called | xcomp |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Kufa | punct |
| 25 | Kufa | Kufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Gopani | flat |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | the White Men | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | live | past | a man | Senna; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a man not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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