The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 76
Gopani-Kufa was astonished at this answer; but knowing that the words of Zengi-mizi were true words, he determined to make the request.
Who acts: Gopani, words · What happens: be, know, determine, make, word · To what, where: answer, true words, request, Zengi mizi
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, words), 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 | 5 astonished | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Kufa | punct |
| 3 | Kufa | Kufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gopani | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 astonished | cop |
| 5 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 answer | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 answer | det |
| 8 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 astonished | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 determined | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 determined | cc |
| 11 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 determined | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 words | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 words | det |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 words | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 mizi | case |
| 16 | Zengi | Zengi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 mizi | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Zengi | punct |
| 18 | mizi | mizi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 words | nmod |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 words | cop |
| 20 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 words | amod |
| 21 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 knowing | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knowing | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 determined | nsubj |
| 24 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 astonished | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 make | mark |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 determined | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 request | det |
| 28 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 make | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Gopani | this answer | astonished property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | gerund | Gopani not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the words of Zengi mizi | true words | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | determine | past | Gopani | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | Gopani not said here | the request | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset request=Product | ||||
| 6 | word | Zengi mizi | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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