Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 51

He shall come upon a white bed on the road, and he shall desire to rest upon it, and the moment he rests upon it he shall burst; and whoever hears and tells him of this thing shall become stone right up to the neck!'"

Who acts: horse, moment, whoever · What happens: come, desire, rest, burst, hear, tell · To what, where: road, horse, 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 (horse, moment, whoever), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 bed	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bed	det
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bed	amod
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 road	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 desire	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 desire	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 desire	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 desire	aux
15	desire	desire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 rest	mark
17	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 desire	xcomp
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rest	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rests	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 rests	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 moment	det
23	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rests	nsubj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 rests	nsubj
25	rests	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 desire	conj
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 rests	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 burst	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 burst	aux
30	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 rests	ccomp
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 hears	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 hears	cc
33	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 hears	nsubj
34	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 become	advcl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 tells	cc
36	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 hears	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 tells	iobj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 thing	case
39	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 thing	det
40	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tells	obl
41	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 become	aux
42	become	become	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 come	parataxis
43	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 become	xcomp
44	right	right	ADV	_	48 neck	advmod
45	up	up	ADP	_	48 neck	case
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 neck	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 neck	det
48	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 become	xcomp
49	!	!	PUNCT	_	48 neck	punct
50	'	'	PUNCT	_	48 neck	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 neck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	shall	horse			the road	upon a white bed	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon bed=Location
2	desire	shall	horse					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	rest not said to happen	to-infinitive	horse not said here			road		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Location
4	rest	present	the moment				upon road	tree rules
5	burst	shall	horse					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hear	present	whoever					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
7	tell speech: assert	present	whoever not said here		horse		of this thing	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
8	become	shall		stone				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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