The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 230
More than ever did the Baba Yaga storm at her mares and shriek:
Who acts: More · What happens: do · To what, where: Baba storm
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 (More), 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 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 4 did | mark |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 storm | det |
| 6 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 storm | compound |
| 7 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Baba | flat |
| 8 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 mares | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mares | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 storm | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shriek | cc |
| 13 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mares | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | More | the Baba storm | ever | at mare's mares and shriek | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=Eventuality |
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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