The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 248
Prince Ivan arose, slipped into the stable, and lay down behind the mangers, while the Baba Yaga was storming away at her mares and shrieking:
Who acts: Prince, Baba Yaga · What happens: arise, slip, lay down, storm away · To what, where: stable, mangers
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, 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 arose | nsubj |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 slipped | punct |
| 5 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arose | conj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 stable | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stable | det |
| 8 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slipped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lay | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lay | cc |
| 11 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 arose | advcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 lay | advmod |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 15 mangers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mangers | det |
| 15 | mangers | manager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lay | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 storming | punct |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 storming | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Yaga | det |
| 19 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Yaga | compound |
| 20 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 storming | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 storming | aux |
| 22 | storming | storm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 lay | advcl |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 storming | advmod |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 mares | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mares | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 storming | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 shrieking | cc |
| 28 | shrieking | shrieking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mares | conj |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | Prince | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | slip | past | Prince not said here | the stable | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | lay down | infinitive | Prince not said here | the mangers | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent behind manager=Destination | |||
| 4 | storm away | past · progressive | the Baba Yaga | at Yaga's mares and shrieking; away property | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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