The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 79
Out came running the Princess Marya, joyfully greeted her brother Ivan, and began inquiring after his health, and telling him all about herself.
What happens: come, run, greet, begin, inquire, tell · To what, where: Princess Marya, brother · 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: 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 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Marya | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Marya | compound |
| 6 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 running | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 greeted | punct |
| 8 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 9 greeted | advmod |
| 9 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 greeted | obj |
| 12 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 brother | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 16 | inquiring | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 began | xcomp |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 health | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 health | nmod:poss |
| 19 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 inquiring | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 telling | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 telling | cc |
| 22 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 inquiring | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 telling | iobj |
| 24 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 herself | advmod |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 herself | case |
| 26 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 telling | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | out property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | gerund | the Princess Marya | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marya=Agent | |||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | past | youth's brother | joyfully property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | inquire speech: other | gerund | after brother's health | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | gerund | brother | about youth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about herself=Topic |
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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