The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 180
Marya Morevna listened to all this, and repeated it to Prince Ivan, and she carried off the handkerchief and gave it to him.
Who acts: Marya, Yaga · What happens: listen, repeat, carry off, give · To what, where: fire, Prince Ivan, handkerchief, Ivan
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, 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 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | nsubj |
| 2 | Morevna | Morevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Marya | flat |
| 3 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 this | det:predet |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 listened | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 repeated | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 repeated | cc |
| 9 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 listened | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 repeated | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Ivan | case |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ivan | compound |
| 13 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 repeated | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 carried | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 carried | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 carried | nsubj |
| 17 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 listened | parataxis |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 handkerchief | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 handkerchief | det |
| 20 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carried | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gave | cc |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 carried | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | Marya | to this | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | repeat | past | Marya not said here | fire | Prince Ivan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to ivan=Recipient | |||
| 3 | carry off | past | Yaga | the handkerchief | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | past | Yaga not said here | fire | Ivan | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient |
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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