The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 8

So it befell that, one day, as Gopani-Kufa was gazing up at the river from a window of the palace he again saw the war-canoes of the white men; and at the sight his spirit misgave him.

Who acts: Gopani Kufa, town, spirit · What happens: gaze up, see, misgive · To what, where: one day, river, war canoes, town, sight

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 Kufa, town, spirit), 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	So	so	ADV	_	43 misgave	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 that	nsubj
3	befell	befell	ADP	_	4 that	case
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 So	fixed
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 day	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 day	nummod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 So	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 day	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 gazing	mark
10	Gopani	Gopani	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Kufa	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Gopani	punct
12	Kufa	Kufa	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 gazing	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gazing	aux
14	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 day	acl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 gazing	compound:prt
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 river	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 river	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gazing	obl
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 window	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 window	det
21	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gazing	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 palace	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 palace	det
24	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 window	nmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	nsubj
26	again	again	ADV	_	27 saw	advmod
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 palace	acl:relcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 canoes	det
29	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 canoes	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 war	punct
31	canoes	canoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 saw	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 men	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 men	det
34	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 men	amod
35	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 canoes	nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 misgave	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 misgave	cc
38	at	at	ADP	_	40 sight	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sight	det
40	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 misgave	obl
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 spirit	nmod:poss
42	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 misgave	nsubj
43	misgave	misgive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 misgave	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	43 misgave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gaze up	past · progressive	Gopani Kufa	one day not said here	the river		from a window of the palace	tree rules
2	see	past	town	the war canoes of the white men		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer canoe=Stimulus
3	misgive	past	town's spirit	town	the sight			tree rules

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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