The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 158

Koshchei galloped off, caught Prince Ivan, chopped him into little pieces, put them into a barrel, smeared it with pitch and bound it with iron hoops, and flung it into the blue sea.

Who acts: Koshchei · What happens: gallop off, catch, chop, put, smear, bind · To what, where: Prince Ivan, Ivan, little pieces, pieces, barrel, blue sea

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	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 galloped	nsubj
2	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 galloped	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 caught	punct
5	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 galloped	conj
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Ivan	compound
7	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 caught	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 chopped	punct
9	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 galloped	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 chopped	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 pieces	case
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pieces	amod
13	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 chopped	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct
15	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 chopped	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 barrel	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 barrel	det
19	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 smeared	punct
21	smeared	smear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 galloped	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 smeared	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 pitch	case
24	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 smeared	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bound	cc
26	bound	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 smeared	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bound	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 hoops	case
29	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hoops	compound
30	hoops	hoop	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bound	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 flung	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 flung	cc
33	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 galloped	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 flung	obj
35	into	into	ADP	_	38 sea	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sea	det
37	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 sea	amod
38	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 flung	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 galloped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gallop off	past	Koshchei				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	past	Koshchei not said here	Prince Ivan			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ivan=Theme
3	chop	past	Koshchei not said here	Ivan		into little pieces result	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into piece=Result
4	put	infinitive	Koshchei not said here	pieces = piece	a barrel		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
5	smear	past		barrel		with pitch	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with pitch=Theme
6	bind	past		barrel		with iron hoops	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with hoop=Co-Patient
7	fling	past	Koshchei not said here	barrel	the blue sea		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into sea=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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