The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 193
‘Please let us alone, Prince Ivan!’ begs the lioness; ‘some time or other I’ll do you a good turn.’
Who acts: I · What happens: let, beg, 'll, do · To what, where: Prince Ivan, us, lioness, 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 | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 2 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 3 let | discourse |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 begs | ccomp |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 let | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ivan | compound |
| 8 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | 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 | 13 lioness | det |
| 13 | lioness | lioness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 begs | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 begs | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 other | cc |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | conj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 ’ll | nsubj |
| 21 | ’ll | 'll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 time | acl:relcl |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 begs | conj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 do | obj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 turn | det |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 turn | amod |
| 26 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 do | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 begs | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 begs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | Prince Ivan | us | alone property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient ivan=Theme | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | present | the lioness | time | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent lioness=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 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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