The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 253
In the dead of the night Prince Ivan stole the sorry colt, saddled it, jumped on its back, and galloped away to the fiery river.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: steal, saddle, jump, gallop away · To what, where: sorry colt, dead, colt, back, fiery river
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 dead | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dead | det |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stole | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stole | obl |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 stole | nsubj |
| 8 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Prince | flat |
| 9 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 colt | det |
| 11 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 colt | amod |
| 12 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stole | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saddled | punct |
| 14 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stole | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saddled | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 jumped | punct |
| 17 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 saddled | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 back | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 back | nmod:poss |
| 20 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 jumped | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 galloped | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 galloped | cc |
| 23 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stole | conj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 galloped | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 river | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 river | det |
| 27 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 river | amod |
| 28 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 galloped | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past | Prince | the sorry colt | the dead | night | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location colt=Theme | ||
| 2 | saddle | past | Prince not said here | colt | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination | ||||
| 3 | jump | past | Prince not said here | colt's back | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | gallop away | past | Prince not said here | the fiery river | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to river=Destination |
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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