The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 265
‘By what means has God brought you back to life?’
Who acts: God · What happens: mean, have, bring back · To what, where: you, life
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 (God), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| 2 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 4 means | mark |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 has | advcl |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | nsubj |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 has | ccomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 brought | obj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 brought | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | bring back | past | God | you | life | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to life=Destination |
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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