The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 186

‘Don’t eat it, Prince Ivan!’ begs the outlandish bird; ‘some time or other I’ll do you a good turn.’

Who acts: I · What happens: not eat, beg, 'll, do · To what, where: foal, outlandish bird, time, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	_	4 eat	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 begs	csubj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eat	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Ivan	punct
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Ivan	compound
8	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct
11	begs	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bird	det
13	outlandish	outlandish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bird	amod
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 begs	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 time	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 time	punct
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 time	det
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 begs	obl:unmarked
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 other	cc
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 time	conj
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 ’ll	nsubj
22	’ll	'll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 time	acl:relcl
23	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 begs	conj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 do	obj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 turn	det
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 turn	amod
27	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 do	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 begs	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 begs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	infinitive · do-support		foal			Prince Ivan obl	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	beg speech: request	present			the outlandish bird	time		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient
3	'll	present	I	some time not said here				tree rules
4	do	present		you				tree rules

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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