The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 147
He wept and wept; then he went back again after Marya Morevna.
Who acts: Ivan · What happens: weep, go back
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 (Ivan), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wept | nsubj |
| 2 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wept | cc |
| 4 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wept | conj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 went | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wept | conj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 Marya | case |
| 12 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | Morevna | Morevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Marya | flat |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | Ivan | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | weep | past | Ivan not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go back | past | Ivan | after Marya; then; again | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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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