The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 172
So Marya Morevna chose a favourable moment, and began asking Koshchei about it.
Who acts: Marya · What happens: choose, begin, ask · To what, where: Koshchei
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 (Marya), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 chose | advmod |
| 2 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 chose | nsubj |
| 3 | Morevna | Morevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Marya | flat |
| 4 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 moment | det |
| 6 | favourable | favourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 moment | amod |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chose | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chose | conj |
| 11 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 began | xcomp |
| 12 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asking | obj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asking | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | Marya | moment | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Marya not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | Marya not said here | Koshchei | about law | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent koshchei=Recipient about it=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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