The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 98
He travelled one day, he travelled two days; at daybreak on the third day he saw a palace grander than the first two, and near the palace stood an oak, and on the oak sat a raven.
Who acts: Hard · What happens: travel, see, stand, sit · To what, where: palace, daybreak, oak, raven
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 travelled | nsubj |
| 2 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 travelled | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 travelled | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 travelled | nsubj |
| 7 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 travelled | conj |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 days | nummod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 travelled | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 daybreak | case |
| 12 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 15 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 day | amod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 daybreak | nmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 travelled | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 palace | det |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 21 | grander | grand | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 palace | amod |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 two | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 two | det |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 two | amod |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 grander | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 stood | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 stood | cc |
| 28 | near | near | ADP | _ | 30 palace | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 palace | det |
| 30 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stood | obl |
| 31 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saw | conj |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 oak | det |
| 33 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stood | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 sat | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 sat | cc |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 oak | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 oak | det |
| 38 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sat | obl |
| 39 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saw | conj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 raven | det |
| 41 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sat | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | Hard | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | travel | past | Hard | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Hard | a palace | daybreak on the third day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | stand | past | Hard not said here | a oak | the palace | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oak=Theme near palace=Destination | |||
| 5 | sit | past | Hard not said here | a raven | the oak | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent raven=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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