Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 173

Then the thrice-lovely Nastasia will appear and say, 'What for thy wares?' but do thou keep silence.

Who acts: lovely Nastasia, thou · What happens: appear, say, keep · To what, where: silence · 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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 appear	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Nastasia	det
3	thrice	thrice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lovely	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 thrice	punct
5	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Nastasia	amod
6	Nastasia	Nastasia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 appear	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 appear	aux
8	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 say	cc
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 appear	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 What	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 What	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 appear	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 wares	case
15	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 wares	nmod:poss
16	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 What	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 wares	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 wares	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 keep	cc
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 keep	aux
21	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 keep	nsubj
22	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 appear	conj
23	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 keep	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 appear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	appear	future	the lovely Nastasia		then	for thy wares	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	the lovely Nastasia not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	keep	infinitive · do-support	thou	silence			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=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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