The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 71

Now Gopani-Kufa had a wasp called Zengi-mizi.

Who acts: Gopani · What happens: have, call · To what, where: wasp · 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 had	advmod
2	Gopani	Gopani	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Gopani	punct
4	Kufa	Kufa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Gopani	flat
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wasp	det
7	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wasp	acl
9	Zengi	Zengi	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 called	xcomp
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 mizi	punct
11	mizi	mizi	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Zengi	appos
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Gopani	a wasp			now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wasp=Patient
2	call	participle		a wasp not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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