Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 169
Go to thy master and say, 'Cause white tents to be raised by the sea-shore, and buy wares of sundry kinds, and wine and spirits in bottles and flasks,' and the thrice-lovely Nastasia will come and purchase thy wares, and then thou mayst take her."
Who acts: you, sea shore, lovely Nastasia, thou · What happens: go, say, raise, buy, come, purchase · To what, where: master, wares, bottles, NASTASIA · 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 (you, sea shore, lovely Nastasia, thou), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 master | case |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 master | nmod:poss |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 say | cc |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tents | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 tents | punct |
| 9 | Cause | cause | SCONJ | _ | 11 tents | case |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tents | amod |
| 11 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 say | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 raised | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 raised | aux:pass |
| 14 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 tents | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 shore | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shore | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shore | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 sea | punct |
| 19 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 raised | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 buy | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 buy | cc |
| 22 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 23 | wares | ware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 buy | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 kinds | case |
| 25 | sundry | sundry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 kinds | amod |
| 26 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 wares | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 wine | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 wine | cc |
| 29 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 spirits | cc |
| 31 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 wine | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 bottles | case |
| 33 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 come | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 flasks | cc |
| 35 | flasks | flask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 bottles | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 ' | punct |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 bottles | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 come | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Nastasia | det |
| 40 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 lovely | amod |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 thrice | punct |
| 42 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 Nastasia | amod |
| 43 | Nastasia | Nastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 come | nsubj |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 come | aux |
| 45 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 purchase | cc |
| 47 | purchase | purchase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 come | conj |
| 48 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 49 wares | nmod:poss |
| 49 | wares | ware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 purchase | obj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 take | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 take | cc |
| 52 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 55 take | advmod |
| 53 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 55 take | nsubj |
| 54 | mayst | may | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 55 take | aux |
| 55 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 come | conj |
| 56 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 take | obj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 58 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | thy master | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to master=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | raise | to-infinitive · passive | the sea shore | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | buy | infinitive | you not said here | wares of sundry kinds | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ware=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | future | the lovely Nastasia | bottles and flasks | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bottle=Location | ||||
| 6 | purchase | infinitive | the lovely Nastasia not said here | thy wares | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ware=Theme | ||||
| 7 | take | may | thou | NASTASIA | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
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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