Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 29

The nobleman felt that he must taste of these apples or die; but the wakeful huntsman rushed up and cut down the apple-tree, whereupon apples and apple-tree turned to ashes.

Who acts: nobleman, wakeful huntsman · What happens: feel, taste, die, rush up, cut down, turn · To what, where: apple tree, apples, ashes

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 (nobleman, wakeful huntsman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nobleman	det
2	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 taste	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 taste	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 taste	aux
7	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 felt	ccomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 apples	case
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 apples	det
10	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 taste	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 die	cc
12	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 taste	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 rushed	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 rushed	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 huntsman	det
16	wakeful	wakeful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 huntsman	amod
17	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rushed	nsubj
18	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 felt	parataxis
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 rushed	compound:prt
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cut	cc
21	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 rushed	conj
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 cut	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tree	det
24	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tree	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 apple	punct
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cut	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 whereupon	punct
28	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	26 tree	conj
29	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 whereupon	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tree	cc
31	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tree	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 apple	punct
33	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 apples	conj
34	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 apples	acl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 ashes	case
36	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 turned	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the nobleman				vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	taste	must	nobleman			of this apples	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	die	infinitive	nobleman not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	rush up	participle	the wakeful huntsman				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cut down	participle	the wakeful huntsman not said here	the apple tree			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product
6	turn	participle		apples and apple tree not said here	ashes		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to ash=Trajectory

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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