The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 207
But the moment he had driven the mares afield, they cocked up their tails, and away they tore across the meadows in all directions.
Who acts: bade, food · What happens: drive, cock up, tear · To what, where: mares, tails, meadows
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 (bade, food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:587): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 cocked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cocked | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 driven | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 driven | aux |
| 6 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 moment | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mares | det |
| 8 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 driven | obj |
| 9 | afield | afield | ADV | _ | 6 driven | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moment | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cocked | nsubj |
| 12 | cocked | cock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 cocked | compound:prt |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tails | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cocked | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tore | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tore | cc |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 tore | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tore | nsubj |
| 20 | tore | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cocked | conj |
| 21 | across | across | ADP | _ | 23 meadows | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 meadows | det |
| 23 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tore | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 directions | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 directions | det |
| 26 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tore | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past · perfect | bade | the mares | afield property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Theme | |||
| 2 | cock up | past | food | food's tails | moment | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | |||
| 3 | tear | past | food | the meadows | in all directions; away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across meadow=Trajectory |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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