The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 236
Next morning the Baba Yaga sent him forth to watch the mares.
Who acts: Baba Yaga · What happens: send, watch · To what, where: storm, mares
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 (Baba Yaga), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Yaga | det |
| 4 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Yaga | compound |
| 5 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | nsubj |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sent | obj |
| 8 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 sent | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 watch | mark |
| 10 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sent | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mares | det |
| 12 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 watch | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the Baba Yaga | storm | morning | forth property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | the Baba Yaga not said here | the mares | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Theme |
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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