The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 169
‘Not so, brothers; I shall go and look for Marya Morevna.’
Who acts: I · What happens: go, look
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 (I), 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 so | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 so | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brothers | punct |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 so | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 so | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 look | cc |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Marya | case |
| 13 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 14 | Morevna | Morevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Marya | flat |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | shall | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | I not said here | for Marya | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for marya=Theme |
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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