--- title: He shall come upon a white bed on the road, and he shall desire to r… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He shall come upon a white bed on the road, and he shall desire to rest upon it, and the moment he rests upon it he shall burst; and whoever hears and tells him of this thing shall become stone right up to the neck!'" Who acts: horse, moment, whoever. 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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 (horse, moment, whoever), 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:pg29672:4:51 # text = He shall come upon a white bed on the road, and he shall desire to rest upon it, and the moment he rests upon it he shall burst; and whoever hears and tells him of this thing shall become stone right up to the neck!'" 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 upon upon ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 desire desire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 upon upon ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 rests rest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 26 upon upon ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 burst burst VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 whoever whoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 hears hear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 advcl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 iobj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 det _ _ 40 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 become become VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 43 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 xcomp _ _ 44 right right ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 45 up up ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ! ! PUNCT . _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | shall | horse | | | the road | | upon a white bed | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon bed=Location | | 2 | **desire** | shall | horse | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **rest** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | horse *not said here* | | | road | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Location | | 4 | **rest** | present | the moment | | | | | upon road | tree rules | | 5 | **burst** | shall | horse | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **hear** | present | whoever | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | whoever *not said here* | | horse | | | of this thing | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 8 | **become** | shall | | stone | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/52/) - ↑ back to [The Voices At the Window, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/)