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title: Insato conducted Gopani-Kufa to the palace, and showing him his room… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Insato conducted Gopani-Kufa to the palace, and showing him his rooms, and the maidens who would wait upon him, told him that they would have a great feast that night, and on the morrow he might name his choice of the riches of Pita and it should be given him. Who acts: Insato, maidens. A sentence o
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 69

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Insato conducted Gopani-Kufa to the palace, and showing him his rooms, and the maidens who would wait upon him, told him that they would have a great feast that night, and on the morrow he might name his choice of the riches of Pita and it should be given him.

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**Who acts:** Insato, maidens · **What happens:** conduct, show, wait, tell, have, name · **To what, where:** Gopani, palace, rooms, great feast, choice, morrow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Insato, maidens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:2:69
# text = Insato conducted Gopani-Kufa to the palace, and showing him his rooms, and the maidens who would wait upon him, told him that they would have a great feast that night, and on the morrow he might name his choice of the riches of Pita and it should be given him.
1	Insato	Insato	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Gopani	Gopani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Kufa	Kufa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	name	name	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Pita	Pita	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj:pass	_	_
53	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
54	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	aux:pass	_	_
55	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	conj	_	_
56	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct** | past | Insato | Gopani |  | the palace |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gopani=Theme to palace=Destination |
| 2 | **show** | gerund | Insato *not said here* | Gopani's rooms | Gopani |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient room=Topic |
| 3 | **wait** | would | the maidens |  |  |  |  | upon Gopani | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Insato *not said here* |  | Gopani |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **have** | would | maidens *= maiden* | a great feast |  |  | night |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient |
| 6 | **name** | might | Insato | Gopani's choice of the riches of Pita |  | the morrow |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Theme |
| 7 | **give** | should · passive |  | choice | Gopani |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme |

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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.

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**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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