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title: Thou shalt come upon a spring by the roadside, a spring of pure wate… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou shalt come upon a spring by the roadside, a spring of pure water, and thou shalt desire to drink of it, and when thou hast drunk thereof thou shalt burst. Who acts: Thou. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 20

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Thou shalt come upon a spring by the roadside, a spring of pure water, and thou shalt desire to drink of it, and when thou hast drunk thereof thou shalt burst.

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** come, desire, drink, burst

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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 (Thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg29672:4:20
# text = Thou shalt come upon a spring by the roadside, a spring of pure water, and thou shalt desire to drink of it, and when thou hast drunk thereof thou shalt burst.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	roadside	roadside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	desire	desire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
28	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nsubj	_	_
29	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	drunk	drink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	parataxis	_	_
31	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	nsubj	_	_
33	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | shall | Thou |  |  |  | spring | by the roadside | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by roadside=Location |
| 2 | **desire** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **drink** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of water | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source |
| 4 | **drink** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | thereof *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **burst** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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