The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 99

Down flew the Raven from the oak, smote upon the ground, turned into a brave youth, and cried aloud:

What happens: fly, smote, turn, cry · To what, where: Raven, oak, ground, brave youth

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: 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	Down	down	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Raven	det
4	Raven	Raven	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 oak	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 oak	det
7	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 smote	punct
9	smote	smote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 flew	conj
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 smote	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turned	punct
14	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 ground	acl
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 youth	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 youth	det
17	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 youth	amod
18	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turned	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cried	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cried	cc
21	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
22	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	21 cried	advmod
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the Raven	the oak	down property	vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent raven=Theme from oak=Initial_Location
2	smote	infinitive			upon the ground	tree rules
3	turn	participle	the ground not said here	a brave youth		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into youth=Trajectory
4	cry speech: express	past			aloud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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