The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 280
‘Well, I can’t stand it,’ says Koshchei the Deathless.
Who acts: I, Koshchei · What happens: not stand, say · To what, where: horse · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, 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 stand | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 stand | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 stand | nsubj |
| 5 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stand | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 stand | advmod |
| 7 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 says | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stand | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stand | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 stand | punct |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 says | nsubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Deathless | det |
| 14 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Koshchei | flat |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stand | can | I | horse | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Koshchei | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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