The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 128
Then he took Marya Morevna from him, and carried her off.
Who acts: Koshchei · What happens: take, carry off · To what, where: Marya Morevna, Morevna
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Morevna | compound |
| 5 | Morevna | Morevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 carried | cc |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 carried | obj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 carried | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Koshchei | Marya Morevna | then | from Ivan | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent morevna=Theme from he=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | carry off | past | Koshchei not said here | Morevna | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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