The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 19

Then the white men fell upon the people of Gopani-Kufa and slew them together with the chief and his daughter Shasasa; and since then all the power of the Earth has rested in the hands of the white men, for they have in their possession Sipao, the Magic Mirror.

Who acts: white men, people · What happens: fall, slay, rest, have, possess · To what, where: people, power, hands, possession

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 (white men, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 fell	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 men	det
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 men	amod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 people	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fell	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Gopani	case
10	Gopani	Gopani	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 people	nmod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Kufa	punct
12	Kufa	Kufa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Gopani	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 slew	cc
14	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 slew	obj
16	together	together	ADV	_	14 slew	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 chief	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 chief	det
19	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 slew	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 daughter	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 daughter	nmod:poss
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chief	conj
23	Shasasa	Shasasa	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 daughter	appos
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 rested	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 rested	cc
26	since	since	ADP	_	27 then	case
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 rested	obl
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 power	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 power	det
30	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rested	nsubj:pass
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 Earth	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Earth	det
33	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 power	nmod
34	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 rested	aux
35	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fell	parataxis
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 hands	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 hands	det
38	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 rested	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 men	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 men	det
41	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 men	amod
42	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 hands	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 have	punct
44	for	for	SCONJ	_	46 have	mark
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 have	nsubj
46	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 rested	conj
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 possession	case
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 possession	nmod:poss
49	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 have	obl
50	Sipao	Sipao	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 possession	appos
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 Mirror	punct
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 Mirror	det
53	Magic	Magic	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 Mirror	compound
54	Mirror	Mirror	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 Sipao	appos
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the white men			then	upon the people of Gopani and Kufa	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon people=Location
2	slay	past	the white men not said here	people			with the chief and man's daughter; together property	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with chief=Instrument
3	rest	present · perfect · passive		all power of the Earth	the hands of the white men			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme in hand=Location
4	have	present	people		people's possession			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	possess		people					nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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