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title: Then he went on, "About the second cockcrow something else came to t… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 48

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Then he went on, "About the second cockcrow something else came to the window and said the selfsame thing, and prophesied, 'He shall come upon a spring by the roadside, a spring of pure water, and he shall long to drink thereof, and the moment he tastes of it he shall burst; and whoever hears and tells him of this thing shall become stone right up to the girdle.'"

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**Who acts:** horse, something, moment, whoever, thing · **What happens:** go on, come, say, prophesy, drink, taste · **To what, where:** window, selfsame thing, horse, stone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (horse, something, moment, whoever), 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:pg29672:4:48
# text = Then he went on, "About the second cockcrow something else came to the window and said the selfsame thing, and prophesied, 'He shall come upon a spring by the roadside, a spring of pure water, and he shall long to drink thereof, and the moment he tastes of it he shall burst; and whoever hears and tells him of this thing shall become stone right up to the girdle.'"
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	About	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	cockcrow	cockcrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
12	else	else	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	selfsame	selfsame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	prophesied	prophesy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	roadside	roadside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
45	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
46	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	48	advmod	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
49	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	tastes	taste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obl	_	_
58	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
59	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
60	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	64	punct	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
63	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	64	nsubj	_	_
64	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
65	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
66	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	64	conj	_	_
67	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	66	iobj	_	_
68	of	of	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
69	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	70	det	_	_
70	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	nsubj	_	_
71	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	72	aux	_	_
72	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	66	ccomp	_	_
73	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	xcomp	_	_
74	right	right	ADV	RB	_	78	advmod	_	_
75	up	up	ADP	IN	_	78	case	_	_
76	to	to	ADP	IN	_	78	case	_	_
77	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	78	det	_	_
78	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | horse |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | past | something |  |  | the window |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | horse *not said here* | the selfsame thing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 4 | **prophesy** *in a quote* | past | horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | shall | horse |  |  |  | spring | by the roadside | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by roadside=Location |
| 6 | **drink** *in a quote* | shall | horse |  |  |  |  | long, thereof *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **taste** *in a quote* | present | the moment |  |  |  |  | of thing | vn see-30.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **burst** *in a quote* | shall | horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **hear** *in a quote* | present | whoever |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 10 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | whoever *not said here* |  | horse |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 11 | **become** *in a quote* | shall | this thing | stone |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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