The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 123

‘It is possible to sow wheat, to wait till it grows up, to reap it and thresh it, to grind it to flour, to make five pies of it, to eat those pies, and then to start in pursuit—and even then to be in time.’

Who acts: It, thunder · What happens: be, sow, wait, grow up, reap, thresh · To what, where: wheat, thunder, five pies, pies, pursuit

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 (It, thunder), 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 possible	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 possible	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 possible	cop
4	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sow	mark
6	sow	sow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 possible	csubj
7	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sow	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wait	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	10 wait	mark
10	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sow	conj
11	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 grows	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 grows	nsubj
13	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wait	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 grows	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reap	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	17 reap	mark
17	reap	reap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wait	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reap	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thresh	cc
20	thresh	thresh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 reap	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 thresh	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 grind	punct
23	to	to	PART	_	24 grind	mark
24	grind	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 reap	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 grind	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 flour	mark
27	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grind	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 make	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	30 make	mark
30	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 reap	conj
31	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 pies	nummod
32	pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 make	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 pies	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 eat	punct
36	to	to	PART	_	37 eat	mark
37	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 make	parataxis
38	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	39 pies	det
39	pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 eat	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 start	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 start	cc
42	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 start	advmod
43	to	to	PART	_	44 start	mark
44	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 possible	parataxis
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 pursuit	case
46	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 start	obl
47	—	-	PUNCT	_	4 possible	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 time	cc
49	even	even	ADV	_	50 then	advmod
50	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	54 time	advmod
51	to	to	PART	_	54 time	mark
52	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 time	cop
53	in	in	ADP	_	54 time	case
54	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 possible	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 possible	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 possible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				possible property	tree rules
2	sow	to-infinitive		wheat				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheat=Theme
3	wait	to-infinitive						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	grow up	present	thunder					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	reap	to-infinitive		thunder				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	thresh	infinitive		thunder				tree rules
7	grind	to-infinitive		thunder				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
8	make	to-infinitive		five pies of thunder				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pie=Product
9	eat	to-infinitive		that pies				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pie=Patient
10	start	to-infinitive			pursuit	then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
11	is	to-infinitive				in time; then		tree rules

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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