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title: ‘Thanks, Prince Ivan!’ cried Koshchei the Deathless, ‘now you will s… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Thanks, Prince Ivan!’ cried Koshchei the Deathless, ‘now you will sooner see your own ears than Marya Morevna!’ and out of the window he flew in the shape of a terrible whirlwind. Who acts: Thanks, you, Koshchei. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 73

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‘Thanks, Prince Ivan!’ cried Koshchei the Deathless, ‘now you will sooner see your own ears than Marya Morevna!’ and out of the window he flew in the shape of a terrible whirlwind.

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**Who acts:** Thanks, you, Koshchei · **What happens:** cry, see, fly · **To what, where:** Koshchei, own ears, window

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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 (Thanks, you, Koshchei), 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:pg540:7:73
# text = ‘Thanks, Prince Ivan!’ cried Koshchei the Deathless, ‘now you will sooner see your own ears than Marya Morevna!’ and out of the window he flew in the shape of a terrible whirlwind.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Deathless	Deathless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Marya	Marya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Morevna	Morevna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Thanks | Koshchei |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent koshchei=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | future | you | your own ears |  |  | now | than Marya Morevna; soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fly** | past | Koshchei |  |  | the window |  | in the shape of a terrible whirlwind | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent out window=Location |

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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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