The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 62
He then took Gopani-Kufa by the hand and led him towards the town.
Who acts: Insato · What happens: take, lead · To what, where: Gopani, Insato, town
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 (Insato), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Gopani | Gopani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Gopani | punct |
| 6 | Kufa | Kufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Gopani | flat |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hand | det |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 led | cc |
| 11 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 led | obj |
| 13 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 town | det |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 led | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Insato | Gopani | then | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument gopani=Destination | ||
| 2 | lead | past | Insato not said here | Insato | the town | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme towards town=Destination |
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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