The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 181
So he managed to get across the fiery river, and then went on to the Baba Yaga’s.
Who acts: Ivan · What happens: manage, get, go on · 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 (Ivan), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 managed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 managed | nsubj |
| 3 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 managed | xcomp |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 9 river | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 river | det |
| 8 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 river | amod |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 went | advmod |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 managed | parataxis |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Yaga | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Yaga | det |
| 17 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Yaga | compound |
| 18 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Yaga | case |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | past | Ivan | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Ivan not said here | the fiery river | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across river=Destination | ||||
| 3 | go on | past | then | to the Baba Yaga | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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