--- title: About midnight he heard a strange noise, and something came to the w… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: About midnight he heard a strange noise, and something came to the window and said, "Oh, thou son of a dog! thou didst say, 'If we had but a warm hut, and a white bed, and soft bread, and sour kvas, we should have naught to complain of, but would tell tales and feign fables till dawn'; but now thou --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Voices At the Window, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/) / 13 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 13 About midnight he heard a strange noise, and something came to the window and said, "Oh, thou son of a dog! thou didst say, 'If we had but a warm hut, and a white bed, and soft bread, and sour kvas, we should have naught to complain of, but would tell tales and feign fables till dawn'; but now thou hast forgotten thy fine promise! **Who acts:** midnight, something, thou, we, sour kvas, thy · **What happens:** hear, come, say, son, do, have · **To what, where:** strange noise, window, white bed, naught, tales, fables · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (midnight, something, thou, we), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:4:13 # text = About midnight he heard a strange noise, and something came to the window and said, "Oh, thou son of a dog! thou didst say, 'If we had but a warm hut, and a white bed, and soft bread, and sour kvas, we should have naught to complain of, but would tell tales and feign fables till dawn'; but now thou hast forgotten thy fine promise! 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 nsubj _ _ 11 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 22 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nsubj _ _ 22 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 ccomp _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 27 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nsubj _ _ 28 didst do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 29 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 If if SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 50 sour sour ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 kvas kvas NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nsubj:outer _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 53 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 54 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 55 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 56 naught naught PRON NN PronType=Neg 55 obj _ _ 57 to to PART TO _ 58 mark _ _ 58 complain complain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 56 acl _ _ 59 of of ADP IN _ 58 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 61 but but CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 62 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 63 aux _ _ 63 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 55 parataxis _ _ 64 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 63 obj _ _ 65 and and CCONJ CC _ 66 cc _ _ 66 feign feign VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 63 conj _ _ 67 fables fable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 66 obj _ _ 68 till till ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 69 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 70 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 69 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 71 ; ; PUNCT , _ 76 punct _ _ 72 but but CCONJ CC _ 76 cc _ _ 73 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 76 advmod _ _ 74 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 76 nsubj _ _ 75 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 76 aux:pass _ _ 76 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 77 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 79 nmod:poss _ _ 78 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 79 amod _ _ 79 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 76 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 80 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | midnight | a strange noise | | | | soft bread *obl* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | | 2 | **come** | past | something | | | the window | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | something *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **son** *in a quote* | | thou | | | | | of a dog | tree rules | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | past | thou | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | thou *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | we | a white bed | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **have** *in a quote* | should | sour kvas | naught | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naught=Patient | | 9 | **complain** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | sour kvas *not said here* | naught *not said here* | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | would | | tales | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | | 11 | **feign** *in a quote* | infinitive | | fables | | | dawn | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fable=Patient | | 12 | **forget** *in a quote* | present · passive | | thou | | | now | | tree rules | | 13 | **promise** *in a quote* | | thy | | | | | | nom promise «communication transitive»: 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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/14/) - ↑ back to [The Voices At the Window, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/)