--- title: And the wasp answered: 'There is nothing in the world, O Gopani-Kufa… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And the wasp answered: 'There is nothing in the world, O Gopani-Kufa, which is of such value as this Mirror, for it is a Wishing Mirror, and accomplishes the desires of him who owns it. Who acts: wasp, nothing, O Gopani, desires. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/2/87/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/2/) / 87 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 87 And the wasp answered: 'There is nothing in the world, O Gopani-Kufa, which is of such value as this Mirror, for it is a Wishing Mirror, and accomplishes the desires of him who owns it. **Who acts:** wasp, nothing, O Gopani, desires · **What happens:** answer, be, accomplish, own, desire · **To what, where:** desires, Mirror, Gopani · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (wasp, nothing, O Gopani, desires), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3027:2:87 # text = And the wasp answered: 'There is nothing in the world, O Gopani-Kufa, which is of such value as this Mirror, for it is a Wishing Mirror, and accomplishes the desires of him who owns it. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 wasp wasp NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 8 expl _ _ 8 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 9 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 8 nsubj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 O O PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Gopani Gopani PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Kufa Kufa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 value value NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 26 Mirror Mirror PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 Wishing Wishing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 Mirror Mirror PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 accomplishes accomplish VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 desires desire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nmod _ _ 41 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 42 owns own VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the wasp | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | present | nothing | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | O Gopani and Kufa | | | | | of such value; as this Mirror | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | wasp | | | | | for a Wishing Mirror | tree rules | | 5 | **accomplish** | present | nothing *not said here* | the desires of Gopani | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Eventuality | | 6 | **own** | present | the desires of Gopani | Mirror | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 7 | **desire** | | | Gopani | | | | | nom desire «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/2/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/2/88/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/2/)