The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 49
He got ready for the journey, he rode and rode, and one day he saw a whole army lying dead on the plain.
Who acts: Ivan, whole army · What happens: get, ride, see, lie · To what, where: whole army, plain
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 (Ivan, whole army), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 got | xcomp |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 journey | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 journey | det |
| 6 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ready | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rode | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rode | nsubj |
| 9 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rode | cc |
| 11 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rode | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 day | nummod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 army | det |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 army | amod |
| 20 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 21 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 army | acl |
| 22 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lying | xcomp |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 plain | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 plain | det |
| 25 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lying | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Ivan | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ride | past | Ivan | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ride | past | Ivan not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see | past | Ivan | a whole army | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer army=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | lie | gerund | a whole army not said here | the plain | dead property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on plain=Location |
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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