The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 171
‘Find out from Koshchei the Deathless whence he got so good a steed.’
Who acts: you, Deathless · What happens: find out, get · To what, where: Koshchei · 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 (you, Deathless), 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 | _ | 2 Find | punct |
| 2 | Find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 Find | compound:prt |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Koshchei | case |
| 5 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Find | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Deathless | det |
| 7 | Deathless | deathless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 got | nsubj |
| 8 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 got | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Find | ccomp |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 good | advmod |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 got | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 steed | det |
| 14 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 good | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Find | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | imperative | you not said here | Koshchei | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source how S»: agent=Agent from koshchei=Source clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get | past | the Deathless | good, whence property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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