Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 77

But do thou go on reading thy prayers, nor look thou up, whatever may happen."

Who acts: thou, whatever, thy · What happens: go, read, look up, happen, pray · To what, where: prayers, thou

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, whatever, 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	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 look	punct
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	11 look	cc
11	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 go	parataxis
12	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 look	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 look	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 happen	punct
15	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 happen	nsubj
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 happen	aux
17	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 look	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic
3	look up	infinitive		thou	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thou=Attribute
4	happen	may	whatever		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
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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