--- title: Then Tremsin lay down and feigned to sleep, and forth from the sea c… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then Tremsin lay down and feigned to sleep, and forth from the sea came the thrice-lovely Nastasia, and went up to the tents and asked, "Merchant, merchant, what for thy wares?" Who acts: Tremsin, sea. 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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 (Tremsin, sea), 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:pg29672:8:175 # text = Then Tremsin lay down and feigned to sleep, and forth from the sea came the thrice-lovely Nastasia, and went up to the tents and asked, "Merchant, merchant, what for thy wares?" 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 Tremsin Tremsin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 down down ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 feigned feign VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 forth forth ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 17 thrice thrice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 Nastasia Nastasia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 tents tent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 Merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 conj _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 wares ware NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie down** | past | Tremsin | | | | then | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **feign** | past | Tremsin *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Tremsin *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come** | past | the sea | the lovely Nastasia | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **go up** | past | Tremsin *not said here* | | | | | to the tents | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Tremsin *not said here* | Merchant and merchant | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent merchant=Recipient | 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 174](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/174/) - next →: [sentence 176](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/176/) - ↑ back to [The Vampire and St Michael](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/)