The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 106
‘Anyhow, leave your silver snuff-box with us.
Who acts: you · What happens: leave · To what, where: silver snuff box
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 (you), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| 2 | Anyhow | anyhow | INTJ | _ | 4 leave | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Anyhow | punct |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 box | nmod:poss |
| 6 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 box | amod |
| 7 | snuff | snuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 box | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 snuff | punct |
| 9 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 us | case |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | your silver snuff box | with us | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent box=Recipient with we=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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