The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 81
O friend, Gopani-Kufa,' he said, 'ask anything but that!
Who acts: friend · What happens: say, ask · To what, where: anything · 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 (friend), 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 2 friend | discourse |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Gopani | punct |
| 4 | Gopani | Gopani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 friend | appos |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Kufa | punct |
| 6 | Kufa | Kufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Gopani | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 friend | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 friend | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ask | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 ask | punct |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 14 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 ask | obj |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 that | cc |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 anything | nmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | anything | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Recipient |
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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