The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 177
I watched her herds for three days without losing a single mare, and in return for that the Baba Yaga gave me a foal.’
Who acts: I, Baba Yaga · What happens: watch, lose, give · To what, where: herds, single mare, foal, me, return
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, Baba Yaga), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 herds | nmod:poss |
| 4 | herds | herd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 watched | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 days | nummod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 watched | obl |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 losing | mark |
| 9 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 watched | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mare | det |
| 11 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mare | amod |
| 12 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 losing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gave | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gave | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 return | case |
| 16 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 that | case |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 return | nmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Yaga | det |
| 20 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Yaga | compound |
| 21 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | nsubj |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 watched | parataxis |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | iobj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 foal | det |
| 25 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 gave | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | I | mare's herds | day | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme | |||
| 2 | lose | gerund | I not said here | a single mare | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the Baba Yaga | a foal | me | return for that | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient foal=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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