Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 62
But do thou go on reading thy prayers all the time, and look not up, whatever she may do."
Who acts: thou, poor, thy · What happens: go, read, not look up, do, pray · To what, where: prayers, whatever
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 (thou, poor, thy), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 go | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 reading | mark |
| 6 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 go | advcl |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 reading | obj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 time | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reading | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 look | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 look | cc |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | parataxis |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 look | advmod |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 14 look | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 18 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 do | obj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 look | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive · do-support | thou | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | read | gerund | thou not said here | thy prayers | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic | |||
| 3 | not look up | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | do | may | poor | whatever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | pray | thy | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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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