The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 131
Now Koshchei the Deathless happened not to be at home.
Who acts: Koshchei · What happens: happen, not be · To what, where: home
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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 happened | advmod |
| 2 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Deathless | det |
| 4 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Koshchei | flat |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 home | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 home | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 home | cop |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | Koshchei | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | to-infinitive | home | 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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