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title: So it befell that, one day, as Gopani-Kufa was gazing up at the rive… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3, with it
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 8

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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.

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

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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 (Gopani Kufa, town, spirit), 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:pg3027:3:8
# text = 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.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	befell	befell	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	Gopani	Gopani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Kufa	Kufa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	acl	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	misgave	misgive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
44	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	43	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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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