The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 56
Prince Ivan replied, ‘Not against their will do brave youths ride!’
Who acts: Prince Ivan, brave youths · What happens: reply, not do, ride · 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 (Prince Ivan, brave youths), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ivan | compound |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 6 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 do | advmod |
| 7 | against | against | SCONJ | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 do | nmod:poss |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 11 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 youths | amod |
| 12 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ride | nsubj |
| 13 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | parataxis |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Prince Ivan | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not do | future | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | ride | present | brave youths | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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