Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 175

Then Tremsin lay down and feigned to sleep, and forth from the sea came the thrice-lovely Nastasia, and went up to the tents and asked, "Merchant, merchant, what for thy wares?"

Who acts: Tremsin, sea · What happens: lie down, feign, sleep, come, go up, ask · To what, where: lovely Nastasia, Merchant

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, sea), 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 lay	advmod
2	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 feigned	cc
6	feigned	feign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sleep	mark
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 feigned	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
11	forth	forth	ADV	_	14 sea	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Nastasia	det
17	thrice	thrice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lovely	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 thrice	punct
19	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Nastasia	amod
20	Nastasia	Nastasia	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 went	compound:prt
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 tents	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tents	det
27	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 went	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 asked	cc
29	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Merchant	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 Merchant	punct
32	Merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 asked	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 merchant	punct
34	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Merchant	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 what	punct
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 Merchant	conj
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 wares	case
38	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	39 wares	nmod:poss
39	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 what	nmod
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	Tremsin		then	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feign	past	Tremsin not said here				tree rules
3	sleep	to-infinitive	Tremsin not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	the sea	the lovely Nastasia			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go up	past	Tremsin not said here			to the tents	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	ask speech: ask	past	Tremsin not said here	Merchant and merchant			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent merchant=Recipient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/175/