The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 6

They died, and the Prince buried them, and then, to solace his grief, he went with his sisters into the garden green to stroll.

Who acts: sisters, Prince · What happens: die, bury, solace, go, stroll · To what, where: sisters, grief, garden

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 (sisters, Prince), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 buried	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 buried	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 buried	nsubj
7	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 died	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 buried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 solace	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 solace	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 solace	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 solace	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 solace	mark
14	solace	solace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 died	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 grief	nmod:poss
16	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 solace	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 died	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 sisters	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 sisters	nmod:poss
22	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 went	obl
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 garden	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 garden	det
25	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
26	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 went	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	28 stroll	mark
28	stroll	stroll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 green	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	sisters = sister					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	bury	past	the Prince	sisters = sister				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	solace	to-infinitive	sisters = sister not said here	Prince's grief		then		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus grief=Experiencer
4	go	past	Prince		the garden		with Prince's sisters	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location
5	stroll	to-infinitive	Prince not said here					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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