The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 165
The Falcon sprinkled it with the Water of Life—Prince Ivan shuddered, stood up, and said:
Who acts: Falcon, Prince · What happens: sprinkle, shudder, stand up, say · To what, where: barrel · 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 (Falcon, Prince), 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 Falcon | det |
| 2 | Falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprinkled | nsubj |
| 3 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing 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 Life | case |
| 9 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Water | nmod |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 shuddered | punct |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 shuddered | nsubj |
| 12 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Prince | flat |
| 13 | shuddered | shudder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprinkled | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shuddered | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 stood | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprinkled | parataxis |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sprinkle | past | the Falcon | barrel | with the Water of Life | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | shudder | past | Prince | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | stand up | past | Prince not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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