The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 161

‘Ah!’ said they, ‘the evil is accomplished sure enough!’

Who acts: articles · What happens: say, accomplish · To what, where: evil · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 accomplished	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 accomplished	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 evil	det
10	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 accomplished	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 accomplished	aux:pass
12	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	ccomp
13	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 accomplished	xcomp
14	enough	enough	ADV	_	13 sure	advmod
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 accomplished	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	articles = article						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	accomplish	present · passive		the evil				sure property	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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