The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 224
Again did the Prince sit down on the stone, weep and weep, and then go to sleep.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: do, sit down, weep, go · To what, where: stone, sleep
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 (Prince), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sit | nsubj |
| 5 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 sit | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 stone | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stone | det |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sit | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 weep | punct |
| 11 | weep | weep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 sit | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 weep | cc |
| 13 | weep | weep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 weep | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 go | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 go | advmod |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sit | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 sleep | case |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | again | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sit down | present | the Prince | the stone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location | ||||
| 3 | weep | infinitive | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | weep | infinitive | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | the Prince not said here | sleep | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location |
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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