The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 47
Gopani-Kufa considered for a moment, then stabbing the antelope with his assegai, he set the python free.
Who acts: Gopani · What happens: consider, stab, set · To what, where: antelope, python
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 (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 | Gopani | Gopani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 considered | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Kufa | punct |
| 3 | Kufa | Kufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gopani | flat |
| 4 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 moment | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 moment | det |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 considered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stabbing | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 stabbing | advmod |
| 10 | stabbing | stab | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 considered | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 antelope | det |
| 12 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stabbing | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 assegai | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 assegai | nmod:poss |
| 15 | assegai | assegai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stabbing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 set | nsubj |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 considered | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 python | det |
| 20 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 set | obj |
| 21 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 set | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past | Gopani | moment | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stab | gerund | Gopani not said here | the antelope | then | with Gopani's assegai | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent antelope=Patient with assegai=Instrument | ||
| 3 | set | past | Gopani | the python | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient python=Result |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/2/47/