The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 286
Wherever they went they met with a joyful greeting.
Who acts: Marya · What happens: go, meet
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), 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 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | ccomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 greeting | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 greeting | det |
| 8 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 greeting | amod |
| 9 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Marya | wherever property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | Marya | with a joyful greeting | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with greeting=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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