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title: ‘Find out from Koshchei the Deathless whence he got so good a steed.’ — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Find out from Koshchei the Deathless whence he got so good a steed.’ Who acts: you, Deathless. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 171

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‘Find out from Koshchei the Deathless whence he got so good a steed.’

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**Who acts:** you, Deathless · **What happens:** find out, get · **To what, where:** Koshchei · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, Deathless), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:7:171
# text = ‘Find out from Koshchei the Deathless whence he got so good a steed.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Deathless	deathless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj	_	_
8	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find out** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | Koshchei |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source how S»: agent=Agent from koshchei=Source clause=Topic |
| 2 | **get** | past | the Deathless |  |  |  |  | good, whence *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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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