---
title: And he went near to the feather, and it shone so that the like of it… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And he went near to the feather, and it shone so that the like of it cannot be expressed or conceived or imagined or even told of in tales. Who acts: youth, feather. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/148/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Vampire and St Michael](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/) / 148

# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 148

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
And he went near to the feather, and it shone so that the like of it cannot be expressed or conceived or imagined or even told of in tales.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** youth, feather · **What happens:** go, shine, not express, conceive, imagine, tell · **To what, where:** feather · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, feather), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg29672:8:148
# text = And he went near to the feather, and it shone so that the like of it cannot be expressed or conceived or imagined or even told of in tales.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
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	near	near	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	21	mark	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
15	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	expressed	express	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	conceived	conceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | youth |  |  | the feather |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to feather=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **shine** | past | feather |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **express** | can · passive |  | feather |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **conceive** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **imagine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | of tales | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/147/)
- next →: [sentence 149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/149/)
- ↑ back to [The Vampire and St Michael](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/)