The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 75
But Prince Ivan wept full sore, and he arrayed himself and set out a-wandering, saying to himself, ‘Whatever happens, I will go and look for Marya Morevna!’
Who acts: Prince Ivan, Ivan, Whatever, I · What happens: weep, array, set out, wonder, say, happen · To what, where: Ivan · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Prince Ivan, Ivan, Whatever, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 wept | cc |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ivan | compound |
| 3 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wept | nsubj |
| 4 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wept | xcomp |
| 6 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 full | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 arrayed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 arrayed | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 arrayed | nsubj |
| 10 | arrayed | array | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wept | conj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 arrayed | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 arrayed | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wandering | det |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 a | punct |
| 17 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 set | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saying | punct |
| 19 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 set | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 himself | case |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 saying | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 happens | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 happens | punct |
| 24 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 happens | nsubj |
| 25 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 go | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 happens | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 go | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 go | aux |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 saying | ccomp |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 look | cc |
| 31 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 go | conj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 Morevna | case |
| 33 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Morevna | compound |
| 34 | Morevna | Morevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 look | obl |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | Prince Ivan | full property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | array | past | Ivan | Ivan | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set out | infinitive | Ivan not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | Ivan not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | Ivan not said here | Ivan | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | happen | present | Whatever | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | go | future | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | look | infinitive | I not said here | for Marya Morevna | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for morevna=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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