Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 100

Thou mayst take hold of me if thou wilt, and draw me out of the top of the hut, near the front gable; and wherever I fall into the marshy ground, there set to work and dig with me!"

Who acts: Thou, I · What happens: take, draw, fall, set, work, dig · To what, where: hold, me, top, marshy ground

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, I), 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	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 take	nsubj
2	mayst	may	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 hold	nmod
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 wilt	mark
8	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 wilt	nsubj
9	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	3 take	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 draw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 draw	cc
12	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 draw	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 top	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 top	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 top	det
17	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 draw	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 hut	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hut	det
20	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 top	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gable	punct
22	near	near	ADP	_	25 gable	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 gable	det
24	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 gable	amod
25	gable	gable	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 top	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 set	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 set	cc
28	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	30 fall	advmod
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 fall	nsubj
30	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 set	advcl
31	into	into	ADP	_	34 ground	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ground	det
33	marshy	marshy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 ground	amod
34	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fall	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fall	punct
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 set	expl
37	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 take	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 work	mark
39	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 set	xcomp
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 dig	cc
41	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 work	conj
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 me	case
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 dig	obl
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	may	Thou	hold of me			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
2	draw	infinitive	Thou not said here	me	the top of the hut and the front gable		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme out top=Initial_Location
3	fall	present	I			into the marshy ground result; wherever property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ground=Result
4	set	participle	Thou not said here		there		tree rules
5	work	to-infinitive	Thou not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	dig	infinitive	Thou not said here			with me	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with i=Instrument
7	hold			me			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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