The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 111
‘Oh, Prince Ivan! why did you disobey me and go looking into the closet and letting out Koshchei the Deathless?’
Who acts: Prince Ivan · What happens: disobey, go, look, let out · To what, where: me, Koshchei
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 (Prince Ivan), 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 | _ | 10 disobey | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 Ivan | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ivan | compound |
| 5 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 disobey | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ivan | punct |
| 7 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 disobey | advmod |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 disobey | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 disobey | nsubj |
| 10 | disobey | disobey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 disobey | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 go | cc |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 disobey | conj |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 go | xcomp |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 closet | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 closet | det |
| 17 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looking | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 letting | cc |
| 19 | letting | let | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 looking | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 letting | compound:prt |
| 21 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 letting | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Deathless | det |
| 23 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 letting | xcomp |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 disobey | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 disobey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disobey | past · do-support | Prince Ivan | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | Prince Ivan not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | Prince Ivan not said here | into the closet | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into closet=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let out | gerund | Prince Ivan not said here | Koshchei | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent koshchei=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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