The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 168
‘Now come and pay us a visit.’
Who acts: you · What happens: come, pay · To what, where: visit, us
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 | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 come | advmod |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pay | cc |
| 5 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | conj |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pay | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 visit | det |
| 8 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pay | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pay | infinitive | you not said here | a visit | us | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient visit=Asset |
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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