The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 150
‘Ah, Prince Ivan! he is sure to catch us and hew you in pieces.’
Who acts: Prince Ivan · What happens: be, catch, hew · To what, where: us, you, pieces
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 (Prince 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 sure | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 9 sure | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ivan | compound |
| 5 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sure | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ivan | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sure | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sure | cop |
| 9 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 catch | mark |
| 11 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sure | xcomp |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 catch | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hew | cc |
| 14 | hew | hew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 catch | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 hew | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 pieces | case |
| 17 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hew | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sure | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Prince Ivan | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive | Prince Ivan not said here | us | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hew | infinitive | Prince Ivan not said here | you | pieces | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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