The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 1

And Butou, dressing himself in rags, set out, and when he came to Gopani-Kufa's town he asked for the chief; and the people took him into the presence of Gopani-Kufa.

Who acts: Butou, people · What happens: dress, set out, come, ask, take · To what, where: Butou, rags, Gopani, town, presence

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Butou, people), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 dressing	cc
2	Butou	Butou	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dressing	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dressing	punct
4	dressing	dress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 dressing	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 rags	case
7	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dressing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 set	punct
9	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 rags	acl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 set	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 came	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dressing	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Gopani	case
17	Gopani	Gopani	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Gopani	punct
19	Kufa	Kufa	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Gopani	flat
20	's	's	PART	_	19 Kufa	case
21	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Gopani	appos
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asked	nsubj
23	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 town	acl:relcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 chief	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 chief	det
26	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 asked	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 took	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 took	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 people	det
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 took	nsubj
31	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 took	obj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 presence	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 presence	det
35	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 took	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Gopani	case
37	Gopani	Gopani	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 presence	nmod
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 Kufa	punct
39	Kufa	Kufa	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Gopani	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dressing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dress	gerund	Butou	Butou	rags		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	set out	participle		rags not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	Butou		Gopani		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gopani=Initial_Location
4	ask speech: ask	past	Butou	town not said here		for the chief	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent town=Recipient
5	take	past	the people	Butou	the presence of Gopani and Kufa		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into presence=Destination

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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