The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 62
So she handed over all the house-keeping affairs to Prince Ivan, and gave him these instructions:
Who acts: youth · What happens: hand, keep, give · To what, where: keeping affairs, instructions, 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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 handed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 handed | nsubj |
| 3 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 affairs | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 affairs | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 affairs | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keeping | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 house | punct |
| 9 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 affairs | amod |
| 10 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 handed | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Ivan | case |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ivan | compound |
| 13 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 affairs | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 handed | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | iobj |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 instructions | det |
| 19 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gave | obj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | past | youth | all keeping affairs to Prince Ivan | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | keep | gerund | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | give | past | youth not said here | this instructions | Ivan | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient instruction=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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