Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 23

Again, toward the third cockcrow, he heard something else coming to the window, and it said, "Oh, thou son of a dog! thou didst say, 'If only we had a warm hut, and a white bed, and soft bread, and sour kvas, we should have naught to complain of, but would tell tales and feign fables till dawn'; but now thou hast forgotten all thy fine promises!

Who acts: kvas, Woe, thou, we, sour kvas, thy · What happens: hear, come, say, son, do, have · To what, where: something, window, warm hut, naught, tales, fables · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (kvas, Woe, thou, we), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Again	again	ADV	_	9 heard	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Again	punct
3	toward	toward	ADP	_	6 cockcrow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cockcrow	det
5	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 cockcrow	amod
6	cockcrow	cockcrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cockcrow	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 heard	obj
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 something	advmod
12	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 something	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 window	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 window	det
15	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coming	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 son	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 son	punct
22	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	25 son	discourse
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Oh	punct
24	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 son	nsubj
25	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	ccomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 dog	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 dog	det
28	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 son	nmod
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 didst	punct
30	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 didst	nsubj
31	didst	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	conj
32	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 didst	ccomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
35	If	if	SCONJ	_	38 had	mark
36	only	only	ADV	_	38 had	advmod
37	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 say	ccomp
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 hut	det
40	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 hut	amod
41	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 had	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 bed	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 bed	cc
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 bed	det
45	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 bed	amod
46	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 bread	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 bread	cc
49	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 bread	amod
50	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 have	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 have	cc
53	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 kvas	amod
54	kvas	kvas	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 have	nsubj:outer
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 kvas	punct
56	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 have	nsubj
57	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 have	aux
58	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 heard	conj
59	naught	naught	PRON	PronType=Neg	58 have	obj
60	to	to	PART	_	61 complain	mark
61	complain	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 naught	acl
62	of	of	ADP	_	61 complain	obl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 tell	punct
64	but	but	CCONJ	_	66 tell	cc
65	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	66 tell	aux
66	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	58 have	parataxis
67	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 tell	obj
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 feign	cc
69	feign	feign	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	66 tell	conj
70	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	69 feign	obj
71	till	till	ADP	_	72 dawn	case
72	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 feign	obl
73	'	'	PUNCT	_	72 dawn	punct
74	;	;	PUNCT	_	79 forgotten	punct
75	but	but	CCONJ	_	79 forgotten	cc
76	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	79 forgotten	advmod
77	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	79 forgotten	nsubj
78	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	79 forgotten	aux:pass
79	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 heard	conj
80	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	83 promises	det
81	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	83 promises	nmod:poss
82	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	83 promises	amod
83	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	79 forgotten	obj
84	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	kvas	something		again	toward the third cockcrow; a white bed obl; soft bread obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
2	come	gerund			the window			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial_Location
3	say speech: express	past	Woe					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	son in a quote		thou				of a dog	tree rules
5	do in a quote	past	thou					tree rules
6	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	thou not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	we	a warm hut				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Patient
8	have in a quote	should	sour kvas	naught				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naught=Patient
9	complain speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	sour kvas not said here	naught not said here				vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	tell speech: assert in a quote	would		tales				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
11	feign in a quote	infinitive		fables		dawn		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fable=Patient
12	forget in a quote	present · passive		thou		now		tree rules
13	promise in a quote		thy					nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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.

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