The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 55
‘Hail, Prince!’ says she; ‘whither does God send you? and is it of your free will or against your will?’
Who acts: Hail, God · What happens: say, send, be · To what, where: host, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hail, God), 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 | _ | 2 Hail | punct |
| 2 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Prince | punct |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Hail | appos |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hail | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hail | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 says | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 send | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 send | punct |
| 11 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 send | advmod |
| 12 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 send | aux |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 send | nsubj |
| 14 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 says | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 send | iobj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 send | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 free | cc |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 free | cop |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 free | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 free | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 free | nmod:poss |
| 22 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 says | conj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 will | aux |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 will | cc |
| 25 | against | against | ADP | _ | 27 will | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 will | nmod:poss |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 free | aux |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 free | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 free | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Hail | host | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | present · do-support | God | you | whither property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | Hail | free property | tree rules |
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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