The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 242
But when the sun had set behind the forest, up came flying a bee, and said:
What happens: set, come, fly, say · To what, where: sun, forest, bee · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 set | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 set | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | aux |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 came | advcl |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 11 | up | up | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | advcl |
| 13 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 came | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bee | det |
| 15 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flying | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · perfect · passive | the sun | the forest | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme behind forest=Destination | ||||
| 2 | come | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | a bee | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bee=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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