The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 48
‘I will set out in search of my sisters.’
Who acts: I · What happens: set out, search · To what, where: search, sisters
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 (I), 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 | _ | 4 set | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | aux |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 search | case |
| 7 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sisters | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 search | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | future | I | search of my sisters | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | search | my sisters | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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