The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 59

Gopani-Kufa turned to Insato, but found, in the place of the python, a man, strong and handsome, with the great snake's skin wrapped round him for covering; and on his arms and neck were rings of pure gold.

Who acts: Gopani · What happens: turn, find, wrap, cover, be · To what, where: Insato, place, skin, rings, arms

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 turned	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Kufa	punct
3	Kufa	Kufa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Gopani	flat
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Insato	case
6	Insato	Insato	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 found	cc
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 place	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 place	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 place	det
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 python	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 python	det
16	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 place	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 man	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 python	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 strong	punct
21	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 handsome	cc
23	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 strong	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 skin	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	30 skin	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 snake	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 snake	amod
28	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 skin	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 snake	case
30	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obl
31	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 skin	acl
32	round	round	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wrapped	obl
34	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 covering	mark
35	covering	cover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 wrapped	advcl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 rings	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 rings	cc
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 arms	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 arms	nmod:poss
40	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 rings	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 neck	cc
42	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 arms	conj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 rings	cop
44	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turned	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 gold	case
46	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 gold	amod
47	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 rings	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Gopani		Insato			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to insato=Result
2	find	past	Gopani not said here	the place of the python			with the great snake's skin	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic
3	wrap	participle		the great snake's skin not said here			round Gopani	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round he=Destination
4	cover	gerund						vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past		rings		Gopani's arms and neck	of pure gold	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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