The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 104
I am going to look for my wife, the fair Princess Marya Morevna.’
Who acts: I · What happens: go, look
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 look | mark |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Morevna | det |
| 11 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Morevna | amod |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Marya | compound |
| 13 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Morevna | compound |
| 14 | Morevna | Morevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 going | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Morevna | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Morevna | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | I | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | I not said here | for my wife | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for wife=Theme |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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