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title: 'O Gopani-Kufa!' hummed the wasp, 'there is nothing now that can be… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'O Gopani-Kufa!' hummed the wasp, 'there is nothing now that can be done, for the words of the antelope which you slew are being fulfilled.' Who acts: nothing, antelope. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 15

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'O Gopani-Kufa!' hummed the wasp, 'there is nothing now that can be done, for the words of the antelope which you slew are being fulfilled.'

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**Who acts:** nothing, antelope · **What happens:** hum, be, do, slay, fulfil, word · **To what, where:** wasp, that, words, antelope

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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 (nothing, antelope), 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:pg3027:3:15
# text = 'O Gopani-Kufa!' hummed the wasp, 'there is nothing now that can be done, for the words of the antelope which you slew are being fulfilled.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	5	case	_	_
3	Gopani	Gopani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Kufa	Kufa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	hummed	hum	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wasp	wasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	nsubj	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	antelope	antelope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hum** | past | nothing *not said here* | the wasp |  |  |  | of Gopani Kufa | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wasp=Topic |
| 2 | **be** | present | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | can · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **slay** | past | the antelope |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fulfil** | present · passive |  | the words of the antelope |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **word** |  |  | the antelope |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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