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title: And he came up with the fair Princess Marya Morevna as she was going… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And he came up with the fair Princess Marya Morevna as she was going her way, laid hold of her and carried her off home with him. Who acts: Koshchei, Morevna. 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 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 74

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And he came up with the fair Princess Marya Morevna as she was going her way, laid hold of her and carried her off home with him.

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**Who acts:** Koshchei, Morevna · **What happens:** come up, go, carry off, hold · **To what, where:** way, Morevna, Thanks

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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 (Koshchei, Morevna), 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:pg540:7:74
# text = And he came up with the fair Princess Marya Morevna as she was going her way, laid hold of her and carried her off home with him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Marya	Marya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Morevna	Morevna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	laid	laid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
26	home	home	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | Koshchei |  |  |  |  | with the fair Marya Morevna | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past · progressive | Morevna | Morevna's way |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **carry off** | past | Koshchei *not said here* | Morevna |  |  |  | with Koshchei; home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **hold** |  |  | Thanks |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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