The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 86
On he went one day, on he went another day, and by the dawn of the third day he saw a palace still grander than the former one and hard by the palace stood an oak, and on the oak sat an eagle.
Who acts: Ivan, grander · What happens: go, see, stand, sit · To what, where: oak, eagle · 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 (Ivan, grander), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | advcl |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 7 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 went | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 dawn | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dawn | det |
| 16 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 day | det |
| 19 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 day | amod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dawn | nmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 palace | det |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 grander | nsubj |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 grander | advmod |
| 26 | grander | grand | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 stood | nsubj |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 one | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 one | det |
| 29 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 one | amod |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 grander | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 hard | cc |
| 32 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 one | conj |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 palace | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 palace | det |
| 35 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hard | obl |
| 36 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 saw | ccomp |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 oak | det |
| 38 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 stood | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 sat | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 sat | cc |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 oak | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 oak | det |
| 43 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 sat | obl |
| 44 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 45 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 eagle | det |
| 46 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 sat | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Ivan | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Ivan | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Ivan | dawn | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | grander | a oak | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oak=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | sit | past | Ivan not said here | a eagle | the oak | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme on oak=Location |
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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