The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 90

The Princess Olga immediately ran to meet him, and began kissing him and embracing him, asking after his health, and telling him all about herself.

Who acts: Princess Olga · What happens: run, meet, begin, kiss, embrace, ask · To what, where: 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: who acts (Princess Olga), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Olga	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Olga	compound
3	Olga	Olga	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ran	nsubj
4	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	5 ran	advmod
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 meet	mark
7	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ran	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 meet	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
12	kissing	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 began	xcomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kissing	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 embracing	cc
15	embracing	embrace	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 kissing	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 embracing	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 asking	punct
18	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 kissing	conj
19	after	after	ADP	_	21 health	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 health	nmod:poss
21	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 asking	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 telling	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 telling	cc
24	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 kissing	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 telling	iobj
26	all	all	ADV	_	28 herself	advmod
27	about	about	ADP	_	28 herself	case
28	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 telling	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the Princess Olga				immediately property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	to-infinitive	the Princess Olga not said here	brother				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	begin	past	the Princess Olga not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	kiss	gerund	the Princess Olga not said here	brother				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
5	embrace	gerund	the Princess Olga not said here	brother				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
6	ask speech: ask	gerund	the Princess Olga not said here			after brother's health		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	tell speech: assert	gerund	the Princess Olga not said here		brother		about Olga	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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