The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 142
‘It is possible to sow barley, to wait till it grows up, to reap it and thresh it, to brew beer, to drink ourselves drunk on it, to sleep our fill, and then to set off in pursuit—and yet to be in time.’
Who acts: It, sky · What happens: be, sow, wait, grow up, reap, thresh · To what, where: barley, sky, beer, ourselves, fill, 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, sky), 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 | barley | barley | 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 brew | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 brew | mark |
| 24 | brew | brew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 reap | conj |
| 25 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 brew | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 drink | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 drink | mark |
| 28 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 brew | conj |
| 29 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 drink | obj |
| 30 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 drink | advcl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 drunk | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sleep | punct |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 sleep | mark |
| 35 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 drink | conj |
| 36 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 fill | nmod:poss |
| 37 | fill | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sleep | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 set | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 set | cc |
| 40 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 set | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 set | mark |
| 42 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 possible | parataxis |
| 43 | off | off | ADP | _ | 42 set | compound:prt |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 pursuit | case |
| 45 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 set | obl |
| 46 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 time | cc |
| 48 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 52 time | advmod |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 time | mark |
| 50 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 52 time | cop |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 time | case |
| 52 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 possible | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
| 54 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sow | to-infinitive | barley | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent barley=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wait | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | grow up | present | sky | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | reap | to-infinitive | sky | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 6 | thresh | infinitive | sky | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | brew | to-infinitive | beer | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Product | |||||
| 8 | drink | to-infinitive | ourselves | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Patient | |||||
| 9 | drink | participle | sky | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | sleep | to-infinitive | our fill | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Theme | |||||
| 11 | set off | to-infinitive | pursuit | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 12 | is | to-infinitive | in time; yet | 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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