The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 202
You won’t have to serve a year with me, but just three days.
Who acts: You · What happens: not have, serve
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 serve | mark |
| 6 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 serve | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 serve | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 days | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 days | cc |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 three | advmod |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 days | nummod |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | future | You | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | serve | to-infinitive | You not said here | year | with me | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with i=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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