The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 174
‘Beyond thrice nine lands, in the thirtieth kingdom, on the other side of the fiery river, there lives a Baba Yaga.
What happens: live · To what, where: Baba Yaga, thrice nine lands
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: 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 | _ | 22 lives | punct |
| 2 | Beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 5 lands | case |
| 3 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lands | amod |
| 4 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 lands | nummod |
| 5 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lives | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kingdom | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 kingdom | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kingdom | det |
| 9 | thirtieth | thirtieth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kingdom | amod |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lands | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 side | punct |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 side | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 side | amod |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lands | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 river | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 river | det |
| 18 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 river | amod |
| 19 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 side | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lands | punct |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 lives | expl |
| 22 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 Yaga | det |
| 24 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Yaga | compound |
| 25 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 lives | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | a Baba Yaga | thrice nine lands and the thirtieth kingdom and the other side of the fiery river; there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beyond land=Location |
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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