The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 156
Scentest thou any ill?’
What happens: scent · To what, where: thou
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: 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 | Scentest | scent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Scentest | obj |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 ill | det |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Scentest | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Scentest | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Scentest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scent | present | thou | any ill obl:unmarked | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Destination |
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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