The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 50
Gopani-Kufa went back to his kraal, and with the new moon he returned again to the spot where he had saved the python.
Who acts: Gopani · What happens: go back, return, save · To what, where: 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Kufa | punct |
| 3 | Kufa | Kufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gopani | flat |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 kraal | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 kraal | nmod:poss |
| 8 | kraal | kraal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 returned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 returned | cc |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 moon | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 moon | det |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 moon | amod |
| 14 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 returned | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 returned | nsubj |
| 16 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 returned | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 spot | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spot | det |
| 20 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 returned | obl |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 saved | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 saved | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 saved | aux |
| 24 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 spot | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 python | det |
| 26 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saved | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | Gopani | to Gopani's kraal result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kraal=Result | ||||
| 2 | return | past | Gopani | again | with the new moon; to the spot result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to spot=Result | |||
| 3 | save | past · perfect | Gopani | the python | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent python=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/2/50/