The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 259

She dashed up to the fiery river, gave a glance, and said, ‘A capital bridge!’

Who acts: Baba · What happens: dash up, give, say · To what, where: fiery river, glance · Speech: someone speaks here

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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dashed	nsubj
2	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 dashed	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
6	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 river	amod
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dashed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dashed	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 glance	det
11	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dashed	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bridge	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 bridge	punct
17	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bridge	det
18	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bridge	amod
19	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 bridge	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 bridge	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	dash up	past	Baba		the fiery river	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to river=Destination
2	give	past	Baba not said here	a glance		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glance=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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