The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 81
‘I cannot abide with you; I must go in search of my wife, the fair Princess Marya Morevna.’
Who acts: I · What happens: not abide, go, search · To what, where: search, wife
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 abide | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 abide | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 abide | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 abide | advmod |
| 5 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 abide | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 abide | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 search | case |
| 13 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wife | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 search | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Marya | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Marya | det |
| 19 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Marya | amod |
| 20 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Marya | compound |
| 21 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 search | nmod |
| 22 | Morevna | Morevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Marya | flat |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 abide | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 abide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not abide | can | I | with you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | must | I | search of my wife the fair Princess Marya | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location | ||||
| 3 | search | my wife | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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