Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 25
Thou shalt come upon a feather-bed in the highway; a longing for rest shall come over thee, and thou wilt lie down on it, and the moment thou liest down thereon thou shalt burst.
Who acts: Thou, longing, moment · What happens: come, come over, lie down, burst · To what, where: highway, thee, longing, moment
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, longing, moment), 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 come | nsubj |
| 2 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bed | det |
| 6 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bed | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 feather | punct |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 highway | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 highway | det |
| 11 | highway | highway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 longing | det |
| 14 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | nsubj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 rest | case |
| 16 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 longing | nmod |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | parataxis |
| 19 | over | over | ADV | _ | 20 thee | advmod |
| 20 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 come | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lie | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lie | cc |
| 23 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 lie | nsubj |
| 24 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 25 lie | aux |
| 25 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 come | conj |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 lie | compound:prt |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 lie | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 burst | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 burst | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 moment | det |
| 32 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 burst | nsubj |
| 33 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 liest | nsubj |
| 34 | liest | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 moment | acl:relcl |
| 35 | down | down | ADV | _ | 34 liest | advmod |
| 36 | thereon | thereon | ADV | _ | 39 burst | advmod |
| 37 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 39 burst | nsubj |
| 38 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 39 burst | aux |
| 39 | burst | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 come | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | shall | Thou | the highway | upon a feather bed | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon bed=Location | |||
| 2 | come over | shall | a longing for rest | thee | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie down | future | thou | longing | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location | ||||
| 4 | lie down | present | thou | the moment not said here | down property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | burst | shall | the moment | thereon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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