--- title: Wherefore this shall befall thee on thy way home: thou shalt come up… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Wherefore this shall befall thee on thy way home: thou shalt come upon an apple-tree covered with apples by the wayside, and straightway thou shalt long to eat of them, and the moment thou tastest thereof thou shalt burst. Who acts: this, thou, moment. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, thou, moment), 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:pg29672:4:45 # text = Wherefore this shall befall thee on thy way home: thou shalt come upon an apple-tree covered with apples by the wayside, and straightway thou shalt long to eat of them, and the moment thou tastest thereof thou shalt burst. 1 Wherefore wherefore ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 befall befall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 home home ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nsubj _ _ 12 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 14 upon upon ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 apples apple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 wayside wayside NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 straightway straightway NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 28 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 nsubj _ _ 29 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 39 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 40 nsubj _ _ 40 tastest taste VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 44 nsubj _ _ 43 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 burst burst VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **befall** | shall | this | thee | | thy way | | wherefore *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | shall | thou | straightway | | a apple tree | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon tree=Location | | 3 | **cover** | participle | | a apple tree *not said here* | | | | with apples; by the wayside | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with apple=Theme | | 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | | | | | of huntsmen *= huntsman* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of they=Source | | 5 | **taste** | present | thou | the moment *not said here* | | | | thereof *property* | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme moment=Attribute | | 6 | **burst** | shall | the moment | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/46/) - ↑ back to [The Voices At the Window, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/)