The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 69
Insato conducted Gopani-Kufa to the palace, and showing him his rooms, and the maidens who would wait upon him, told him that they would have a great feast that night, and on the morrow he might name his choice of the riches of Pita and it should be given him.
Who acts: Insato, maidens · What happens: conduct, show, wait, tell, have, name · To what, where: Gopani, palace, rooms, great feast, choice, morrow · 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 (Insato, maidens), 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 | Insato | Insato | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 conducted | nsubj |
| 2 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Gopani | Gopani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 conducted | obj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Kufa | punct |
| 5 | Kufa | Kufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gopani | flat |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 conducted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 showing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 showing | cc |
| 11 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 conducted | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 showing | obj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 rooms | nmod:poss |
| 14 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 showing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wait | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wait | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 maidens | det |
| 18 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wait | nsubj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 wait | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 wait | aux |
| 21 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 conducted | conj |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wait | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 told | punct |
| 25 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 conducted | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 told | iobj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 have | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 have | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 have | aux |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 told | ccomp |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 feast | det |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 feast | amod |
| 33 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 have | obj |
| 34 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 night | det |
| 35 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 have | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 name | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 name | cc |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 morrow | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 morrow | det |
| 40 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 name | obl |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 name | nsubj |
| 42 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 name | aux |
| 43 | name | name | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 conducted | parataxis |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 choice | nmod:poss |
| 45 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 name | obj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 riches | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 riches | det |
| 48 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 choice | nmod |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 Pita | case |
| 50 | Pita | Pita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 riches | nmod |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 given | cc |
| 52 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 given | nsubj:pass |
| 53 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 55 given | aux |
| 54 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 55 given | aux:pass |
| 55 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 name | conj |
| 56 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 given | iobj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 conducted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conduct | past | Insato | Gopani | the palace | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gopani=Theme to palace=Destination | |||
| 2 | show | gerund | Insato not said here | Gopani's rooms | Gopani | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient room=Topic | |||
| 3 | wait | would | the maidens | upon Gopani | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Insato not said here | Gopani | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | have | would | maidens = maiden | a great feast | night | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient | |||
| 6 | name | might | Insato | Gopani's choice of the riches of Pita | the morrow | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Theme | |||
| 7 | give | should · passive | choice | Gopani | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=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.
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