The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 72
Zengi-mizi was not an ordinary wasp, for the spirit of the father of Gopani-Kufa had entered it, so that it was exceedingly wise.
Who acts: Zengi mizi · What happens: not be, enter, be · To what, where: ordinary wasp, spirit
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 (Zengi mizi), 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 | Zengi | Zengi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mizi | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Zengi | punct |
| 3 | mizi | mizi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wasp | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wasp | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 wasp | advmod |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wasp | det |
| 7 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wasp | amod |
| 8 | wasp | wasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spirit | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 spirit | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spirit | det |
| 12 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 entered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 father | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 father | det |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spirit | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Gopani | case |
| 17 | Gopani | Gopani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 father | nmod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Kufa | punct |
| 19 | Kufa | Kufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Gopani | conj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 entered | aux |
| 21 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 wasp | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 entered | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 wise | punct |
| 24 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 29 wise | mark |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 so | fixed |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 wise | expl |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 wise | cop |
| 28 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 29 wise | advmod |
| 29 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wasp | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wasp | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | Zengi mizi | a ordinary wasp | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | past · perfect · passive | the spirit of the father of Gopani and Kufa | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | exceedingly, wise property | 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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