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title: Thou shalt come upon a feather-bed in the highway; a longing for res… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou shalt come upon a feather-bed in the highway; a longing for rest shall come over thee, and thou wilt lie down on it, and the moment thou liest down thereon thou shalt burst. Who acts: Thou, longing, moment. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1, wi
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 25

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Thou shalt come upon a feather-bed in the highway; a longing for rest shall come over thee, and thou wilt lie down on it, and the moment thou liest down thereon thou shalt burst.

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**Who acts:** Thou, longing, moment · **What happens:** come, come over, lie down, burst · **To what, where:** highway, thee, longing, moment

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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, longing, moment), 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:pg29672:4:25
# text = Thou shalt come upon a feather-bed in the highway; a longing for rest shall come over thee, and thou wilt lie down on it, and the moment thou liest down thereon 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	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	highway	highway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
19	over	over	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
24	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
33	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	nsubj	_	_
34	liest	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	down	down	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
37	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	39	nsubj	_	_
38	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | shall | Thou |  |  | the highway |  | upon a feather bed | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon bed=Location |
| 2 | **come over** | shall | a longing for rest | thee |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lie down** | future | thou |  |  | longing |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location |
| 4 | **lie down** | present | thou | the moment *not said here* |  |  |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **burst** | shall | the moment |  |  |  |  | thereon *property* | 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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