The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 247
Do you steal it, and at the dead of night ride away from the house.’
Who acts: you · What happens: steal, ride away · To what, where: colt, house
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 (you), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 steal | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 steal | nsubj |
| 3 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 steal | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ride | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ride | cc |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 dead | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dead | det |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ride | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dead | obl |
| 12 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 steal | parataxis |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 ride | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ride | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 steal | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 steal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | present · do-support | you | colt | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride away | present | the house | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from house=Trajectory |
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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