The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 282
After a time he came up with Prince Ivan, lighted on the ground, and was going to chop him up with his sharp sword.
Who acts: Koshchei · What happens: come up, light, go, chop up · To what, where: Prince Ivan, ground, Koshchei
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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Ivan | case |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ivan | compound |
| 9 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lighted | punct |
| 11 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Ivan | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 ground | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ground | det |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lighted | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 going | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 going | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 going | aux |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 chop | mark |
| 20 | chop | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 going | xcomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 chop | obj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 chop | compound:prt |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 sword | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sword | nmod:poss |
| 25 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sword | amod |
| 26 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chop | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | Koshchei | time | with Prince Ivan | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | light | participle | Prince Ivan not said here | the ground | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | Koshchei not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | chop up | to-infinitive | Koshchei not said here | Koshchei | with Koshchei's sharp sword | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with sword=Instrument |
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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