Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 44

They brought the mare, and he mounted it and said, "My master, last midnight something came beneath the window and said, 'Oh, son of a dog! thou saidst, "If only we had a warm hut, and a white bed, and soft bread, and sour kvas, we should grieve no more, but tell tales and feign fables till dawn," and now thou hast forgotten thy promise.

Who acts: huntsmen, master, thou, we, sour kvas, tales · What happens: bring, mount, say, come, have, grieve · To what, where: mare, courtyard, window, warm hut, more, fables · 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, master, thou, we), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mare	det
4	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mounted	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 mounted	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 mounted	nsubj
8	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 brought	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 mounted	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mounted	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
14	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 master	nmod:poss
15	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 midnight	punct
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 midnight	amod
18	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 master	conj
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
21	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	23 window	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 window	det
23	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 son	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 son	punct
28	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	30 son	discourse
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Oh	punct
30	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	ccomp
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 dog	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 dog	det
33	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 son	nmod
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 saidst	punct
35	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	36 saidst	nsubj
36	saidst	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 said	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
39	If	if	SCONJ	_	42 had	mark
40	only	only	ADV	_	42 had	advmod
41	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 had	nsubj
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 saidst	conj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 hut	det
44	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 hut	amod
45	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 had	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 bed	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 bed	cc
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 bed	det
49	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 bed	amod
50	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 hut	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 bread	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 bread	cc
53	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 bread	amod
54	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 had	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 grieve	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 grieve	cc
57	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 kvas	amod
58	kvas	kvas	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 grieve	nsubj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 kvas	punct
60	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	62 grieve	nsubj
61	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 grieve	aux
62	grieve	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 bread	parataxis
63	no	no	ADV	_	64 more	advmod
64	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	62 grieve	obj
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 tell	punct
66	but	but	CCONJ	_	67 tell	cc
67	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 grieve	parataxis
68	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 tell	obj
69	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 feign	cc
70	feign	feign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	67 tell	conj
71	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 feign	obj
72	till	till	ADP	_	73 dawn	case
73	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 feign	obl
74	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 bread	punct
75	"	"	PUNCT	_	54 bread	punct
76	and	and	CCONJ	_	79 hast	cc
77	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	79 hast	advmod
78	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	79 hast	nsubj
79	hast	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 saidst	conj
80	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	79 hast	ccomp
81	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	82 promise	nmod:poss
82	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	80 forgotten	obj
83	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	huntsmen = huntsman		the mare				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mare=Destination
2	mount	past	master	courtyard					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	say speech: express	past	master not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come in a quote	past	My master and last midnight			the window			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath window=Location
5	say speech: assert in a quote	past	My master and last midnight not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert in a quote	past	thou						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	have a condition, not said to happen	past	we	a warm hut and a white bed				soft bread obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Patient
8	grieve	should	sour kvas	more					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus more=Experiencer
9	tell speech: assert	infinitive	tales						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	feign	infinitive	tales not said here	fables			dawn		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fable=Patient
11	have in a quote	present	thou				now		tree rules
12	forget in a quote	participle	thou not said here	thy promise					tree rules
13	promise in a quote		thy						nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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