The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 164
The Raven sprinkled them with the Water of Death—the pieces joined together, the body became whole.
Who acts: Raven, pieces · What happens: sprinkle, join, become · To what, where: articles, pieces
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 (Raven, pieces), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Raven | det |
| 2 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sprinkled | nsubj |
| 3 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sprinkled | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 Water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Water | det |
| 7 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sprinkled | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Death | case |
| 9 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Water | nmod |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 pieces | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pieces | det |
| 12 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 became | nsubj |
| 13 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 pieces | acl |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 joined | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 body | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 body | det |
| 17 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pieces | conj |
| 18 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprinkled | parataxis |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 became | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprinkled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sprinkle | past | the Raven | articles = article | with the Water of Death | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with water=Theme | |||
| 2 | join | participle | the pieces and the body not said here | together property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | become | past | the pieces and the body | whole property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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