The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 163

Afterwards they all three met, broke open the barrel, took out the remains of Prince Ivan, washed them, and put them together in fitting order.

Who acts: articles · What happens: meet, break, open, take out, wash, put · To what, where: barrel, remains, articles, fitting order

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	Afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	5 met	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 met	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 three	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 met	nsubj
5	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 broke	punct
7	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 met	conj
8	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 broke	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 barrel	det
10	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 open	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 met	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 took	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 remains	det
15	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	12 took	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Ivan	case
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Ivan	compound
18	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 remains	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 washed	punct
20	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 washed	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 put	cc
24	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 washed	advcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	obj
26	together	together	ADV	_	24 put	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 order	case
28	fitting	fitting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 order	amod
29	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past	articles = article			afterwards property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	break	past	articles = article not said here				tree rules
3	open	infinitive	articles = article not said here	the barrel			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location barrel=Theme
4	take out	past	articles = article not said here	the remains of Prince Ivan			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remains=Theme
5	wash	past	articles = article not said here	articles = article			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	put	infinitive	articles = article not said here	articles = article	fitting order	together property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in order=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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