The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 218
‘Well, well! to-morrow don’t go galloping over the meadows, but disperse amid the thick forests.’
Who acts: disperse amid · What happens: not go, gallop, forest · To what, where: 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 (disperse amid), 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 | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 11 go | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 11 go | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 morrow | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 to | punct |
| 8 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 well | nmod |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 10 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 go | advmod |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | galloping | gallop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 go | xcomp |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 meadows | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 meadows | det |
| 15 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 galloping | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 forests | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 forests | cc |
| 18 | disperse | disperse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 amid | amod |
| 19 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 forests | nsubj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forests | det |
| 21 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 forests | amod |
| 22 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 go | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | present · do-support | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | gallop | gerund | the meadows | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over meadow=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | forest | disperse amid | 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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