The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 264
She came running out, and flung herself on his neck, crying:
Who acts: Baba · What happens: come, run out, fling, cry · To what, where: Baba, neck
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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 running | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 flung | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 flung | cc |
| 7 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 flung | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 neck | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 neck | nmod:poss |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flung | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crying | punct |
| 13 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 flung | advcl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Baba | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run out | gerund | Baba not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fling | past | Baba not said here | Baba | Prince's neck | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on neck=Destination | |||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | Baba not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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