The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 58
In the distance Gopani-Kufa saw a great collection of houses all square, built of stone and very tall, and their roofs were shining with gold and burnished iron.
Who acts: Gopani, roofs · What happens: see, build, shine, burnish · To what, where: great collection
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, roofs), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 distance | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 distance | det |
| 3 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 4 | Gopani | Gopani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Kufa | punct |
| 6 | Kufa | Kufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Gopani | flat |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 collection | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 collection | amod |
| 10 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 houses | case |
| 12 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 collection | nmod |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 square | det |
| 14 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 built | punct |
| 16 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 saw | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 stone | case |
| 18 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 built | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 tall | cc |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 tall | advmod |
| 21 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 built | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 shining | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 shining | cc |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 roofs | nmod:poss |
| 25 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 shining | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 shining | aux |
| 27 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 saw | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 gold | case |
| 29 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shining | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 iron | cc |
| 31 | burnished | burnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 iron | amod |
| 32 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gold | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Gopani | a great collection of houses | in the distance | tree rules | |||
| 2 | build | participle | Gopani not said here | of stone | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | shine | past · progressive | men's roofs | with gold and burnished iron | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gold=Theme | ||||
| 4 | burnish | participle | tree rules |
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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