The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 254

When he came to that river he waved the handkerchief three times on the right hand, and suddenly, springing goodness knows whence, there hung across the river, high in the air, a splendid bridge.

Who acts: Prince, springing goodness · What happens: come, wave, spring, know, hang · To what, where: river, handkerchief, right hand

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, springing goodness), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 waved	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 waved	nsubj
8	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 handkerchief	det
10	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waved	obj
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 times	nummod
12	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 waved	obl:unmarked
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 hand	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hand	det
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hand	amod
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waved	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 knows	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 knows	cc
19	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	21 springing	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 springing	punct
21	springing	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 goodness	amod
22	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 knows	nsubj
23	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 waved	conj
24	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	23 knows	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hung	punct
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 hung	expl
27	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 knows	conj
28	across	across	ADP	_	30 river	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 river	det
30	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hung	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 high	punct
32	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 river	amod
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 air	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 air	det
35	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 high	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 bridge	punct
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 bridge	det
38	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 bridge	amod
39	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 river	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 waved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Prince		that river			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
2	wave	past	Prince	the handkerchief	the right hand	time		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient
3	spring	gerund					suddenly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	know	present	springing goodness				whence property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	hang	participle	springing goodness not said here		the river and a splendid bridge; there			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across 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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