The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 73
‘Thanks, Prince Ivan!’ cried Koshchei the Deathless, ‘now you will sooner see your own ears than Marya Morevna!’ and out of the window he flew in the shape of a terrible whirlwind.
Who acts: Thanks, you, Koshchei · What happens: cry, see, fly · To what, where: Koshchei, own ears, window
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 (Thanks, you, Koshchei), 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 | _ | 2 Thanks | punct |
| 2 | Thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ivan | punct |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ivan | compound |
| 5 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Thanks | appos |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ivan | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ivan | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Deathless | det |
| 11 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Koshchei | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 see | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 17 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 see | advmod |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | conj |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ears | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ears | amod |
| 21 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 see | obj |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 Morevna | case |
| 23 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Morevna | compound |
| 24 | Morevna | Morevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 flew | cc |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 window | case |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 window | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 window | det |
| 31 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 flew | obl |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 flew | nsubj |
| 33 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 shape | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 shape | det |
| 36 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 flew | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 whirlwind | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 whirlwind | det |
| 39 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 whirlwind | amod |
| 40 | whirlwind | whirlwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shape | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Thanks | Koshchei | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent koshchei=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see | future | you | your own ears | now | than Marya Morevna; soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | fly | past | Koshchei | the window | in the shape of a terrible whirlwind | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent out window=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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