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The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 179

‘Why, I’ve a handkerchief of this kind—when I wave it thrice on the right hand, there springs up a very lofty bridge, and the fire cannot reach it.’

Who acts: I, fire · What happens: have, wave, spring up, not reach · To what, where: handkerchief, lofty bridge, bridge

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, fire), 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

punctadvmodpunctnsubjdetobjcasedetnmodpunctadvmodnsubjconjobjxcompcasedetamodoblpunctexplconjcompound:prtdetadvmodamodobjpunctccdetnsubjauxadvmodadvclobjpunctpunctroot‘PUNCTWhyADV,PUNCTIPRON’veVERBaDEThandkerchiefNOUNofADPthisDETkindNOUN—PUNCTwhenADVIPRONwaveVERBitPRONthriceADJonADPtheDETrightADJhandNOUN,PUNCTtherePRONspringsVERBupADPaDETveryADVloftyADJbridgeNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETfireNOUNcanAUXnotPARTreachVERBitPRON.PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_5 ’vepunct
2WhywhyADVPronType=Int5 ’veadvmod
3,,PUNCT_2 Whypunct
4IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs5 ’vensubj
5’vehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
6aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 handkerchiefdet
7handkerchiefhandkerchiefNOUNNumber=Sing5 ’veobj
8ofofADP_10 kindcase
9thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem10 kinddet
10kindkindNOUNNumber=Sing7 handkerchiefnmod
11—-PUNCT_14 wavepunct
12whenwhenADVPronType=Int14 waveadvmod
13IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs14 wavensubj
14wavewaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 ’veconj
15ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 waveobj
16thricethriceADJDegree=Pos14 wavexcomp
17ononADP_20 handcase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 handdet
19rightrightADJDegree=Pos20 handamod
20handhandNOUNNumber=Sing16 thriceobl
21,,PUNCT_23 springspunct
22theretherePRONPronType=Dem23 springsexpl
23springsspringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 waveconj
24upupADP_23 springscompound:prt
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 bridgedet
26veryveryADV_27 loftyadvmod
27loftyloftyADJDegree=Pos28 bridgeamod
28bridgebridgeNOUNNumber=Sing23 springsobj
29,,PUNCT_35 reachpunct
30andandCCONJ_35 reachcc
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 firedet
32firefireNOUNNumber=Sing35 reachnsubj
33cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin35 reachaux
34notnotPARTPolarity=Neg35 reachadvmod
35reachreachVERBVerbForm=Inf5 ’veadvcl
36ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 reachobj
37..PUNCT_5 ’vepunct
38’'PUNCT_5 ’vepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepresentIa handkerchief of this kindvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient
2wavepresentIhandkerchiefthrice propertyvn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3spring uppresentI not said herea lofty bridgetherevn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bridge=Theme
4not reachcanthe firebridgevn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=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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