The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 178

‘But how did you get across the fiery river?’

Who acts: you · What happens: get · To what, where: fiery river

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), 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	_	6 get	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 get	cc
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	across	across	ADP	_	10 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
9	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 river	amod
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	you			the fiery river			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across river=Destination

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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