The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 200
‘I have come to earn from you an heroic steed.’
Who acts: I · What happens: come, earn · To what, where: heroic steed
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 come | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 earn | mark |
| 6 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | advcl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 earn | obl |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 steed | det |
| 10 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 steed | amod |
| 11 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 earn | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | earn | to-infinitive | I not said here | a heroic steed | from you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent steed=Theme from you=Source |
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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