The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 78
‘Ha, dear brother-in-law! how deals the Lord with you?’
What happens: deal · To what, where: Lord, dear law
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: 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 | _ | 9 law | punct |
| 2 | Ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 9 law | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 law | punct |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 law | amod |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 law | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 law | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 law | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 in | punct |
| 9 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deals | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 law | punct |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 deals | advmod |
| 12 | deals | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Lord | det |
| 14 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 deals | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 deals | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 deals | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 deals | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deal | present | the Lord | dear law | with you | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/7/78/