The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 57
‘Well, if your business be not pressing, tarry awhile in my tent.’
Who acts: business, you · What happens: not be, tarry · To what, where: tent
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 (business, you), 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 | _ | 11 tarry | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 11 tarry | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 business | mark |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 business | nmod:poss |
| 6 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tarry | advcl |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pressing | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 pressing | advmod |
| 9 | pressing | press | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 business | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 business | punct |
| 11 | tarry | tarry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 11 tarry | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tent | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tent | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tarry | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 tarry | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 tarry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | infinitive | your business not said here | press property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tarry | imperative | you not said here | my tent | awhile property | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tent=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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