The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 160
At that very time the silver articles turned black which Prince Ivan had left with his brothers-in-law.
Who acts: silver articles · What happens: turn, leave · To what, where: Prince Ivan
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 (silver articles), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 articles | det |
| 6 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 articles | compound |
| 7 | articles | article | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 turned | xcomp |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 left | obj |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Ivan | compound |
| 12 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 left | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 left | aux |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 turned | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 brothers | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 left | obl |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 law | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 law | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 in | punct |
| 21 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the silver articles | time | black property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect · passive | Prince Ivan | with Ivan's brothers | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme which=Attribute |
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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