The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 15

'O Gopani-Kufa!' hummed the wasp, 'there is nothing now that can be done, for the words of the antelope which you slew are being fulfilled.'

Who acts: nothing, antelope · What happens: hum, be, do, slay, fulfil, word · To what, where: wasp, that, words, antelope

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 (nothing, antelope), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 hummed	punct
2	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	5 Kufa	case
3	Gopani	Gopani	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Kufa	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Gopani	punct
5	Kufa	Kufa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hummed	obl
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 Kufa	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 Kufa	punct
8	hummed	hum	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 is	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wasp	det
10	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hummed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hummed	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 hummed	punct
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 is	expl
14	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 is	nsubj
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 nothing	advmod
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 done	obj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 done	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 done	aux:pass
20	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 nothing	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 words	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 words	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 words	det
24	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 fulfilled	nsubj:pass
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 antelope	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 antelope	det
27	antelope	antelope	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 words	nmod
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 slew	nsubj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 slew	nsubj
30	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 antelope	acl:relcl
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 fulfilled	aux:pass
32	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 fulfilled	aux:pass
33	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 done	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 is	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hum	past	nothing not said here	the wasp		of Gopani Kufa	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wasp=Topic
2	be	present	nothing		there		tree rules
3	do	can · passive		that			tree rules
4	slay	past	the antelope				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	fulfil	present · passive		the words of the antelope			tree rules
6	word			the antelope			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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