The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 4
And Gopani-Kufa believed the white man's story, and he took him in and feasted him, and gave him a house.
Who acts: Gopani · What happens: believe, take, feast, give · To what, where: story, man, house
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 (Gopani), 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 | _ | 5 believed | cc |
| 2 | Gopani | Gopani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 believed | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kufa | punct |
| 4 | Kufa | Kufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Gopani | flat |
| 5 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 story | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 man | case |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believed | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 took | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 feasted | cc |
| 18 | feasted | feast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 feasted | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gave | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gave | cc |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | iobj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 house | det |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | Gopani | the white man's story | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Gopani | man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | feast | past | Gopani not said here | man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | past | Gopani not said here | a house | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient house=Theme |
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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