Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 172

Then Tremsin rode toward the tents, and while he was on the way his horse said to him, "Now when I go to graze, do thou lie down and feign to sleep.

Who acts: Tremsin, nobleman, horse · What happens: ride, be, say, go, graze, do · To what, where: way, nobleman, thou · 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 (Tremsin, nobleman, horse), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 rode	advmod
2	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rode	nsubj
3	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	toward	toward	ADP	_	6 tents	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tents	det
6	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rode	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 way	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 way	cc
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 way	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 way	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 way	cop
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 way	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rode	obl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 horse	nmod:poss
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 way	acl:relcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
22	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 go	advmod
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 go	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 go	nsubj
25	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rode	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 graze	mark
27	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 go	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rode	punct
29	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 rode	parataxis
30	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	29 do	obj
31	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	29 do	parataxis
32	down	down	ADP	_	31 lie	compound:prt
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 feign	cc
34	feign	feign	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 lie	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 sleep	mark
36	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 feign	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	Tremsin				then	toward the tents	tree rules
2	is	past	nobleman			the way			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	nobleman's horse	the way not said here	nobleman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Topic to he=Recipient
4	go in a quote	present	nobleman's horse = horse				now		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	graze in a quote	to-infinitive	nobleman's horse = horse not said here						vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	do in a quote	infinitive		thou					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality
7	lie down in a quote	infinitive							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	feign in a quote	infinitive							tree rules
9	sleep in a quote	to-infinitive							vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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