Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 148

And he went near to the feather, and it shone so that the like of it cannot be expressed or conceived or imagined or even told of in tales.

Who acts: youth, feather · What happens: go, shine, not express, conceive, imagine, tell · To what, where: feather · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, feather), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 went	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 feather	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 feather	det
7	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shone	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shone	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shone	nsubj
11	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
12	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	21 expressed	mark
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 so	fixed
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 expressed	det
15	like	like	SCONJ	_	21 expressed	mark
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 like	fixed
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 expressed	nsubj:pass
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 expressed	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 expressed	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 expressed	aux:pass
21	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 shone	advcl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 conceived	cc
23	conceived	conceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 expressed	conj
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 imagined	cc
25	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 expressed	conj
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 told	cc
27	even	even	ADV	_	28 told	advmod
28	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 imagined	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 tales	case
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 tales	case
31	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 told	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	youth		the feather	near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to feather=Initial_Location
2	shine	past	feather				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not express	can · passive		feather			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	conceive	participle					vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	imagine	participle					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	tell speech: assert	participle				of tales	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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