The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 258
At full speed did she fly in her iron mortar, urging it on with the pestle, sweeping away her traces with the broom.
Who acts: Baba · What happens: fly, urge on, sweep away · To what, where: full speed, mortar, traces
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 (Baba), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 speed | case |
| 2 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 speed | amod |
| 3 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fly | obl |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fly | aux |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fly | nsubj |
| 6 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mortar | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mortar | nmod:poss |
| 9 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mortar | compound |
| 10 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fly | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 urging | punct |
| 12 | urging | urge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 fly | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 urging | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 urging | compound:prt |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 pestle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pestle | det |
| 17 | pestle | pestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 urging | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sweeping | punct |
| 19 | sweeping | sweep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 urging | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 sweeping | advmod |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 traces | nmod:poss |
| 22 | traces | trace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sweeping | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 broom | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 broom | det |
| 25 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sweeping | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past · do-support | Baba | full speed | in Baba's iron mortar | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at speed=Location | |||
| 2 | urge on | gerund | Baba not said here | mortar | with the pestle | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | |||
| 3 | sweep away | gerund | Baba not said here | Baba's traces | with the broom; away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trace=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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