Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 199

And now," said the horse, "I shall plunge into the sea, and when thou seest a large red wave driving toward the shore, run away till the red wave has passed and thou dost see a white wave coming, and then sit down on the shore and keep watch.

Who acts: I, thou, large red wave, white wave · What happens: say, plunge, see, drive, run away, pass · To what, where: horse, sea, large red wave, shore, red wave, white wave · 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 (I, thou, large red wave, white wave), 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	_	5 said	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 now	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 plunge	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 plunge	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 plunge	nsubj
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 plunge	aux
12	plunge	plunge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 sea	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plunge	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 run	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 run	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 seest	advmod
19	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 seest	nsubj
20	seest	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 run	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 wave	det
22	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wave	amod
23	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wave	amod
24	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seest	obj
25	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 wave	acl
26	toward	toward	ADP	_	28 shore	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 shore	det
28	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 driving	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seest	punct
30	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 plunge	conj
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 run	advmod
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	37 passed	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wave	det
34	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 wave	amod
35	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 passed	nsubj:pass
36	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 passed	aux
37	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 run	advcl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 dost	cc
39	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	40 dost	nsubj
40	dost	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 plunge	conj
41	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 dost	xcomp
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 wave	det
43	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 wave	amod
44	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 see	obj
45	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 wave	acl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 sit	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 sit	cc
48	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 sit	advmod
49	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 plunge	conj
50	down	down	ADP	_	49 sit	compound:prt
51	on	on	ADP	_	53 shore	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 shore	det
53	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 sit	obl
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 keep	cc
55	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 sit	conj
56	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 keep	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the horse		now		tree rules
2	plunge	shall	I		the sea			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sea=Initial_Location
3	see	present	thou	a large red wave				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wave=Stimulus
4	drive	gerund	a large red wave not said here		the shore			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent toward shore=Trajectory
5	run away	infinitive	I not said here				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	pass	present · perfect · passive		the red wave				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
7	do	present	thou					tree rules
8	see	infinitive	thou not said here	a white wave				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wave=Stimulus
9	come	gerund	a white wave not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	sit down	infinitive	I not said here		the shore	then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location
11	keep	infinitive	I not said here	watch				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=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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