The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 262
Prince Ivan fattened up the colt in the green meadows, and it turned into a wondrous steed.
Who acts: Prince, colt · What happens: fatten up, turn · To what, where: colt, green meadows, wondrous steed
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, colt), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fattened | nsubj |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | fattened | fatten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 fattened | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 colt | det |
| 6 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fattened | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 meadows | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 meadows | det |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 meadows | amod |
| 10 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fattened | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 turned | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fattened | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 steed | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 steed | det |
| 17 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 steed | amod |
| 18 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fattened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fatten up | past | Prince | the colt | the green meadows | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent colt=Patient | |||
| 2 | turn | past | colt | a wondrous steed | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into steed=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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