The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 52
Gopani-Kufa at first was afraid, thinking of what the antelope had said, but finally he consented and followed Insato into the forest.
Who acts: Gopani · What happens: be, think, say, consent, follow · To what, where: antelope, Insato, forest · 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: 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 | 7 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gopani | punct |
| 3 | Kufa | Kufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gopani | flat |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 first | case |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 afraid | obl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 afraid | cop |
| 7 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thinking | punct |
| 9 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 afraid | advcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 what | case |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 thinking | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 antelope | det |
| 13 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | aux |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 consented | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 consented | cc |
| 18 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 20 consented | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 consented | nsubj |
| 20 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 afraid | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 followed | cc |
| 22 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 consented | conj |
| 23 | Insato | Insato | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 followed | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 forest | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 forest | det |
| 26 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 followed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Gopani | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | Gopani not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the antelope | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | consent | past | Gopani | finally property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | follow | past | Gopani not said here | Insato | the forest | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent insato=Theme into forest=Trajectory |
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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