The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 50

He cried aloud, ‘If there be a living man there, let him make answer!

Who acts: Ivan · What happens: cry, be, let, make · To what, where: living man, Ivan, answer

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), 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 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	2 cried	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 man	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 man	punct
6	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 be	mark
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 be	expl
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 man	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obl
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 man	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cried	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Ivan			aloud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	infinitive		a living man	there		tree rules
3	let	infinitive	Ivan not said here	Ivan			tree rules
4	make	infinitive	Ivan not said here	answer			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=Product

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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