The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 287
‘Ah, Prince Ivan! why, we never expected to see you again.
Who acts: we · What happens: not expect, see · To what, where: you
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 (we), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ivan | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 Ivan | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ivan | compound |
| 5 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 expected | advcl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ivan | punct |
| 7 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 Ivan | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ivan | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 expected | nsubj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 expected | advmod |
| 11 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 expected | xcomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 see | obj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 see | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not expect | past | we | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | you | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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