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title: ‘All this mighty host has been slain by the fair Princess Marya More… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘All this mighty host has been slain by the fair Princess Marya Morevna.’ Who acts: fair Princess Marya. 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 53

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‘All this mighty host has been slain by the fair Princess Marya Morevna.’

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**Who acts:** fair Princess Marya · **What happens:** slay · **To what, where:** mighty host

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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 (fair Princess Marya), 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:pg540:7:53
# text = ‘All this mighty host has been slain by the fair Princess Marya Morevna.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Marya	Marya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl:agent	_	_
14	Morevna	Morevna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** | present · perfect · passive | the fair Princess Marya | all mighty host |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |

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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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