Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 26

But if any of thy huntsmen hear this thing and tell it thee, he shall become stone up to the neck!"

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

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear a condition, not said to happen	present	any	this thing			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	any not said here	thing	thee		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient it=Topic
3	become up	shall	kvas	stone		to the neck	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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