The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 117
Towards evening he was returning home, when his good steed stumbled beneath him.
Who acts: Koshchei, good steed · What happens: return, stumble
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 (Koshchei, good steed), 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 | Towards | toward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 evening | compound |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returning | compound |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 returning | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 returning | aux |
| 5 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 returning | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stumbled | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 stumbled | advmod |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 steed | nmod:poss |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 steed | amod |
| 11 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stumbled | nsubj |
| 12 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 returning | conj |
| 13 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stumbled | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past · progressive | Koshchei | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stumble | participle | Koshchei's good steed | beneath Koshchei | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath he=Trajectory |
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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