The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 285

Then Marya Morevna mounted Koshchei’s horse and Prince Ivan got on his own, and they rode away to visit first the Raven, and then the Eagle, and then the Falcon.

Who acts: Marya, Prince Ivan · What happens: mount, get, ride away, visit · To what, where: horse, own, Raven

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 (Marya, Prince Ivan), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 mounted	advmod
2	Marya	Marya	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mounted	nsubj
3	Morevna	Morevna	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Marya	flat
4	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 horse	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Koshchei	case
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mounted	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 got	cc
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Ivan	compound
10	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mounted	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 own	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 own	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 got	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rode	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rode	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rode	nsubj
18	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mounted	conj
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 rode	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 visit	mark
21	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 rode	xcomp
22	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 visit	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Raven	det
24	Raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 visit	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Eagle	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Eagle	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 Eagle	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Eagle	det
29	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mounted	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Falcon	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 Falcon	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 Falcon	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Falcon	det
34	Falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Eagle	appos
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mount	past	Marya	Koshchei's horse		then	the Eagle obl	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	get	past	Prince Ivan		Koshchei's own			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on own=Source
3	ride away	past	Marya				away property	tree rules
4	visit	to-infinitive	Marya not said here	the Raven			first property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raven=Co-Agent

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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