The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 270
‘No, he won’t catch us!
Who acts: Koshchei · What happens: not catch · To what, where: us
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 (Koshchei), 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 | _ | 7 catch | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 catch | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 catch | nsubj |
| 5 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 catch | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 catch | advmod |
| 7 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 catch | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not catch | future | Koshchei | us | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
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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