Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 6

He rubbed his hands together and cried, "Oh, had we but a warm hut, and a white bed, and soft bread, and sour kvas,[7] we should have naught to complain of, but would tell tales and feign fables till dawn of day!"

Who acts: nobleman, sour kvas · What happens: rub, cry, have, complain, tell, feign · To what, where: hands, white bed, we, 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 (nobleman, sour kvas), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rubbed	nsubj
2	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rubbed	obj
5	together	together	ADV	_	2 rubbed	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cried	cc
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rubbed	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
10	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	12 had	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Oh	punct
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	parataxis
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 had	obj
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 hut	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hut	det
16	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hut	amod
17	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bed	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bed	det
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bed	amod
22	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bread	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bread	cc
25	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bread	amod
26	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 have	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 have	cc
29	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 kvas	amod
30	kvas	kvas	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 have	nsubj:outer
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 7	punct
32	[	[	PUNCT	_	33 7	punct
33	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 kvas	appos
34	]	]	PUNCT	_	33 7	punct
35	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 have	nsubj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 have	aux
37	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 rubbed	conj
38	naught	naught	PRON	PronType=Neg	37 have	obj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 complain	mark
40	complain	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 naught	acl
41	of	of	ADP	_	40 complain	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 tell	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 tell	cc
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 tell	aux
45	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 rubbed	parataxis
46	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 tell	obj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 feign	cc
48	feign	feign	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	45 tell	conj
49	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 feign	obj
50	till	till	ADP	_	51 dawn	case
51	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 feign	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 day	case
53	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 dawn	nmod
54	!	!	PUNCT	_	45 tell	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	rub	past	nobleman	nobleman's hands		together property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	nobleman not said here	a white bed		soft bread obl	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	past		we			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient
4	have in a quote	should	sour kvas	naught			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naught=Patient
5	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
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	would		tales			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
7	feign in a quote	infinitive		fables	dawn		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fable=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.

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