The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 241
Prince Ivan sat down on the stone, wept, and fell asleep.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: sit down, weep, fall · To what, where: stone
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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 stone | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stone | det |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wept | punct |
| 9 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 13 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fell | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Prince | the stone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location | ||||
| 2 | weep | past | Prince not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | Prince not said here | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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