The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 162

Then the Eagle hurried to the blue sea, caught hold of the barrel, and dragged it ashore; the Falcon flew away for the Water of Life, and the Raven for the Water of Death.

Who acts: Eagle, Falcon · What happens: hurry, catch, drag, fly away, hold · To what, where: Raven, blue sea, barrel

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 (Eagle, Falcon), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 hurried	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Eagle	det
3	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hurried	nsubj
4	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sea	amod
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hurried	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hold	punct
10	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 hold	amod
11	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sea	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 barrel	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 barrel	det
14	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hold	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dragged	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dragged	cc
17	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hurried	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dragged	obj
19	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	17 dragged	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 flew	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Falcon	det
22	Falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flew	nsubj
23	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hurried	conj
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 flew	advmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 Water	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Water	det
27	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 flew	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Life	case
29	Life	Life	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Water	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Raven	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 Raven	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Raven	det
33	Raven	Raven	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hurried	obl
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 Water	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Water	det
36	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Raven	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Death	case
38	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Raven	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hurried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurry	past	the Eagle	the Raven for the Water of Death	the blue sea	then		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sea=Destination
2	catch	participle						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	drag	past	the Eagle not said here	barrel			ashore property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	fly away	past	the Falcon				for the Water of Life; away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hold			the barrel				nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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