The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 261
There truly did she meet with a cruel death!
Who acts: Baba · What happens: meet
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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 meet | expl |
| 2 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 5 meet | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 meet | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 meet | nsubj |
| 5 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 death | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 death | det |
| 8 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 death | amod |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meet | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past · do-support | Baba | there | with a cruel death; truly property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with death=Co-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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