The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 6
For the heart of Shasasa, the daughter of Gopani-Kufa, went forth to Butou the traitor, and from her he learnt the secret of the Magic Mirror.
Who acts: Gopani · What happens: go, learn · To what, where: traitor, Butou, secret
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 heart | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heart | det |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Shasasa | case |
| 5 | Shasasa | Shasasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heart | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 daughter | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 daughter | det |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Shasasa | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Gopani | case |
| 10 | Gopani | Gopani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 daughter | nmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Kufa | punct |
| 12 | Kufa | Kufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Gopani | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heart | punct |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Butou | case |
| 17 | Butou | Butou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 traitor | det |
| 19 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 learnt | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 learnt | cc |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 learnt | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 learnt | nsubj |
| 25 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 secret | det |
| 27 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 learnt | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Mirror | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Mirror | det |
| 30 | Magic | Magic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Mirror | compound |
| 31 | Mirror | Mirror | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 secret | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the traitor | Butou | for the heart of Shasasa; forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to butou=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | learn | past | Gopani | the secret of the Magic Mirror | from Kufa | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent secret=Topic from she=Source |
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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