The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 82
‘Hard will it be for you to find her,’ answered the Falcon.
Who acts: search, Hard · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: Falcon · 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 (search, Hard), 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 Hard | punct |
| 2 | Hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 find | cop |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Hard | ccomp |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 find | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hard | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hard | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Falcon | det |
| 15 | Falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | search | find property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Hard | the Falcon | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent falcon=Eventuality |
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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