Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 45
Wherefore this shall befall thee on thy way home: thou shalt come upon an apple-tree covered with apples by the wayside, and straightway thou shalt long to eat of them, and the moment thou tastest thereof thou shalt burst.
Who acts: this, thou, moment · What happens: befall, come, cover, eat, taste, burst · To what, where: thee, way, straightway, apple tree, 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 (this, thou, 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 | 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 | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 come | nsubj |
| 12 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 befall | conj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 16 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tree | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 apple | punct |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obl |
| 19 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 tree | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 apples | case |
| 21 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 covered | obl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 wayside | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wayside | det |
| 24 | wayside | wayside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 covered | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 straightway | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 straightway | cc |
| 27 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obl |
| 28 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 long | nsubj |
| 29 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 30 long | aux |
| 30 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 straightway | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 eat | mark |
| 32 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 come | advcl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 eat | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 burst | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 burst | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 moment | det |
| 38 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 burst | nsubj |
| 39 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 tastest | nsubj |
| 40 | tastest | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 moment | acl:relcl |
| 41 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 40 tastest | advmod |
| 42 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 44 burst | nsubj |
| 43 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 44 burst | aux |
| 44 | burst | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 come | conj |
| 45 | . | . | 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 | ||
| 2 | come | shall | thou | straightway | a apple tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon tree=Location | |||
| 3 | cover | participle | a apple tree not said here | with apples; by the wayside | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with apple=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | thou not said here | of huntsmen = huntsman | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of they=Source | ||||
| 5 | taste | present | thou | the moment not said here | thereof property | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme moment=Attribute | |||
| 6 | burst | shall | the moment | 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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