The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 284
Afterwards the Prince heaped up a pile of wood, set fire to it, burnt Koshchei the Deathless on the pyre, and scattered his ashes to the wind.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: heap up, set, scatter · To what, where: pile, fire, pyre, ashes
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 | Afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 4 heaped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heaped | nsubj |
| 4 | heaped | heap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 heaped | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pile | det |
| 7 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heaped | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pile | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 heaped | conj |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 set | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Koshchei | punct |
| 16 | burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Koshchei | amod |
| 17 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Deathless | det |
| 19 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Koshchei | appos |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 pyre | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pyre | det |
| 22 | pyre | pyre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 scattered | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 scattered | cc |
| 25 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heaped | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 ashes | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 scattered | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 wind | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 wind | det |
| 30 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 scattered | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heap up | past | the Prince | a pile of wood | afterwards property | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pile=Theme | |||
| 2 | set | infinitive | the Prince not said here | fire | fire | the pyre | burnt Koshchei obl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme on pyre=Destination | |
| 3 | scatter | past | the Prince not said here | Koshchei's ashes | to the wind | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ash=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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