The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 59
He spent two nights in the tent, and he found favour in the eyes of Marya Morevna, and she married him.
Who acts: Ivan, youth · What happens: spend, find, marry · To what, where: tent, favour, eyes, Ivan
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, youth), 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 spent | nsubj |
| 2 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 nights | nummod |
| 4 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spent | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tent | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tent | det |
| 7 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spent | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spent | conj |
| 12 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 eyes | det |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 found | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Marya | case |
| 17 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 eyes | nmod |
| 18 | Morevna | Morevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Marya | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 married | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 married | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 married | nsubj |
| 22 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spent | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 married | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | Ivan | the tent | night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | find | past | Ivan | favour | the eyes of Marya | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic | |||
| 3 | marry | past | youth | Ivan | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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