Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 21

But if any of these thy huntsmen hear and tell thee of this thing, he shall become stone to the girdle."

Who acts: huntsmen, kvas · What happens: hear, tell, become · To what, where: thee, stone · 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 (huntsmen, kvas), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	18 become	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 hear	mark
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 huntsmen	det
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 these	case
5	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 any	nmod
6	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 huntsmen	nmod:poss
7	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hear	nsubj
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 become	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tell	cc
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hear	conj
11	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 tell	iobj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 thing	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 thing	det
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hear	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 become	nsubj
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 become	aux
18	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 become	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 girdle	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 girdle	det
22	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 become	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 become	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	thy huntsmen				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	thy huntsmen not said here		thee	of this thing	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient
3	become	shall	kvas	stone		to the girdle	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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