The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 167
‘You’d have gone on sleeping a good deal longer if it hadn’t been for us,’ replied his brothers-in-law.
Who acts: You · What happens: go, sleep, be, reply · To what, where: good deal, brothers
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 (You), 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 gone | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | ’d | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 gone | aux |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 replied | advcl |
| 6 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 sleeping | mark |
| 7 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 gone | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 deal | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 deal | amod |
| 10 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sleeping | obj |
| 11 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 sleeping | advmod |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 had | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 us | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 had | advmod |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 us | cop |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 us | case |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 replied | punct |
| 21 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 23 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 replied | obj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 law | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 law | case |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 in | punct |
| 27 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 brothers | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | would · perfect | You | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sleep | gerund | You not said here | a good deal | long property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | for us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | Life's brothers and law | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brother=Topic |
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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