The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 283

But at that moment Prince Ivan’s horse smote Koshchei the Deathless full swing with its hoof, and cracked his skull, and the Prince made an end of him with a club.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: smite, crack, make · To what, where: Koshchei, skull, end

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 (Prince), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 smote	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 moment	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 smote	obl
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ivan	compound
6	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 horse	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Ivan	case
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moment	nmod
9	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 smote	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 swing	det
12	Deathless	Deathless	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 swing	compound
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 swing	amod
14	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 smote	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 hoof	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hoof	nmod:poss
17	hoof	hoof	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 swing	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cracked	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cracked	cc
20	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 smote	parataxis
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 skull	nmod:poss
22	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cracked	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 made	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 made	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Prince	det
26	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 made	nsubj
27	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 cracked	conj
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 end	det
29	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 end	nmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 club	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 club	det
34	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 smote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	smite	past		Koshchei	moment		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus koshchei=Experiencer swing=Result
2	crack	past		Koshchei's skull			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skull=Theme
3	make	past	the Prince	a end of Koshchei		with a club	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Product

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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