The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 210

But when the sun was near its setting the outlandish bird came flying up to him, and awakened him, saying:

Who acts: sun · What happens: set, come, fly up, awaken, say · To what, where: outlandish bird, Prince · 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 (sun), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 setting	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 setting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 setting	aux
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 setting	mark
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 setting	nsubj
8	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 came	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bird	det
10	outlandish	outlandish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bird	amod
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 setting	obj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 came	xcomp
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 flying	compound:prt
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 flying	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 awakened	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 awakened	cc
19	awakened	awaken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 awakened	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saying	punct
22	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 awakened	advcl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	set	past · progressive	the sun	the outlandish bird		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient bird=Result
2	come	past				tree rules
3	fly up	gerund			Prince	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result
4	awaken	past		Prince		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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