Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 13

About midnight he heard a strange noise, and something came to the window and said, "Oh, thou son of a dog! thou didst say, 'If we had but a warm hut, and a white bed, and soft bread, and sour kvas, we should have naught to complain of, but would tell tales and feign fables till dawn'; but now thou hast forgotten thy fine promise!

Who acts: midnight, something, thou, we, sour kvas, thy · What happens: hear, come, say, son, do, have · To what, where: strange noise, window, white bed, naught, tales, fables · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (midnight, something, thou, we), 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	About	about	ADV	_	2 midnight	advmod
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 noise	det
6	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 noise	amod
7	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 window	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 window	det
14	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 son	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 son	punct
19	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	22 son	discourse
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Oh	punct
21	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 son	nsubj
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	ccomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 dog	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 dog	det
25	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 son	nmod
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
27	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 didst	nsubj
28	didst	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
29	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 didst	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
32	If	if	SCONJ	_	34 had	mark
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 say	ccomp
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 hut	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 hut	det
37	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 hut	amod
38	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 bed	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 bed	cc
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 bed	det
42	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 bed	amod
43	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 bread	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 bread	cc
46	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 bread	amod
47	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 have	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 have	cc
50	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 kvas	amod
51	kvas	kvas	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 have	nsubj:outer
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 kvas	punct
53	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 have	nsubj
54	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 have	aux
55	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 heard	conj
56	naught	naught	PRON	PronType=Neg	55 have	obj
57	to	to	PART	_	58 complain	mark
58	complain	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 naught	acl
59	of	of	ADP	_	58 complain	obl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 tell	punct
61	but	but	CCONJ	_	63 tell	cc
62	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 tell	aux
63	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	55 have	parataxis
64	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 tell	obj
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 feign	cc
66	feign	feign	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	63 tell	conj
67	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 feign	obj
68	till	till	ADP	_	69 dawn	case
69	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 feign	obl
70	'	'	PUNCT	_	69 dawn	punct
71	;	;	PUNCT	_	76 forgotten	punct
72	but	but	CCONJ	_	76 forgotten	cc
73	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	76 forgotten	advmod
74	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	76 forgotten	nsubj
75	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	76 forgotten	aux:pass
76	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 heard	conj
77	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	79 promise	nmod:poss
78	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	79 promise	amod
79	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 forgotten	obj
80	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	midnight	a strange noise			soft bread obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
2	come	past	something		the window			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial_Location
3	say speech: express	past	something not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	son in a quote		thou				of a dog	tree rules
5	do in a quote	past	thou					tree rules
6	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	thou not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	we	a white bed				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	have in a quote	should	sour kvas	naught				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naught=Patient
9	complain speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	sour kvas not said here	naught not said here				vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	tell speech: assert in a quote	would		tales				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
11	feign in a quote	infinitive		fables		dawn		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fable=Patient
12	forget in a quote	present · passive		thou		now		tree rules
13	promise in a quote		thy					nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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