The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 182
Long went he on without getting anything either to eat or to drink.
Who acts: Long · What happens: go on, get, eat, drink · To what, where: anything
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 (Long), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 on | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 6 getting | mark |
| 6 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 getting | obj |
| 8 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 eat | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 eat | mark |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 getting | advcl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 drink | cc |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 drink | mark |
| 13 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 eat | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | Long | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | gerund | Long not said here | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | Long not said here | either property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | drink | to-infinitive | Long not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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