The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 260

She drove on to the bridge, but had only got half-way when the bridge broke in two, and the Baba Yaga went flop into the river.

Who acts: Baba, bridge, Baba Yaga · What happens: drive, get, break, go, flop · To what, where: bridge, half way, two, 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 (Baba, bridge, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drove	nsubj
2	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 drove	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 bridge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bridge	det
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drove	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 got	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 got	cc
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 got	aux
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 got	advmod
11	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 drove	parataxis
12	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	14 way	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 half	punct
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obl
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 broke	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bridge	det
17	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 broke	nsubj
18	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 got	advcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 two	case
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 broke	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 went	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Yaga	det
24	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Yaga	compound
25	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 went	nsubj
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drove	conj
27	flop	flop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 went	xcomp
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 river	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 river	det
30	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flop	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	drive	past	Baba		the bridge	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to bridge=Trajectory
2	get	past · perfect		half way		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	break	past	the bridge		two	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in two=Location
4	go	past	the Baba Yaga			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	flop	infinitive	the Baba Yaga not said here		the river	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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