Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 24
Wherefore this shall befall thee on thy way home.
Who acts: this · What happens: befall · To what, where: thee, way
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 (this), 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 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 befall | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 befall | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 befall | aux |
| 4 | befall | befall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 befall | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 way | nmod:poss |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 befall | obl |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 way | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 befall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | befall | shall | this | thee | thy way | wherefore property | tree rules |
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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