The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 65
The moment Marya Morevna had gone he rushed to the closet, pulled open the door, and looked in—there hung Koshchei the Deathless, fettered by twelve chains.
Who acts: moment, Ivan · What happens: go, rush, pull, open, look in, hang · To what, where: closet, door, Koshchei
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 (moment, Ivan), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 moment | appos |
| 4 | Morevna | Morevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Marya | flat |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | aux |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 rushed | advcl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rushed | nsubj |
| 8 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 closet | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 closet | det |
| 11 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rushed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pulled | punct |
| 13 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rushed | conj |
| 14 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 pulled | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 open | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 looked | cc |
| 19 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rushed | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 looked | compound:prt |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 hung | punct |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 hung | advmod |
| 23 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rushed | parataxis |
| 24 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 hung | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Deathless | det |
| 26 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 hung | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fettered | punct |
| 28 | fettered | fetter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 hung | conj |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 chains | case |
| 30 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 chains | nummod |
| 31 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 fettered | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | the moment | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rush | past | Ivan | the closet | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to closet=Destination | ||||
| 3 | pull | past | Ivan not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | open | infinitive | Ivan not said here | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 5 | look in | past | Ivan not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | hang | past | Koshchei | there | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent koshchei=Patient deathless=Result | ||||
| 7 | fetter | participle | by twelve chains | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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