Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 98

He drills little holes with me, and then lets me rest; so I'll let him rest too."--Then the serpent said to the gimlet, "So the Tsar's a good master to thee, eh!

Who acts: TSAR, me, I, serpent · What happens: drill, let, rest, say, be · To what, where: little holes, me, TSAR, gimlet, good master · 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 (TSAR, me, I, serpent), 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 drills	nsubj
2	drills	drill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 holes	amod
4	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drills	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 holes	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lets	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lets	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 lets	advmod
10	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 drills	conj
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 lets	obj
12	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 lets	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 let	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 let	nsubj
16	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 let	aux
17	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 drills	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 let	obj
19	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 let	xcomp
20	too	too	ADV	_	19 rest	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
24	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 said	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 serpent	det
26	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drills	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 gimlet	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 gimlet	det
30	gimlet	gimlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gimlet	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 master	punct
33	So	so	ADV	_	39 master	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Tsar	det
35	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 master	nsubj
36	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 master	cop
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 master	det
38	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 master	amod
39	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	ccomp
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 thee	case
41	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	39 master	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 eh	punct
43	eh	eh	INTJ	_	39 master	discourse
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 drills	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	drill	present	TSAR	little holes			with me	tree rules
2	let	present	TSAR not said here	me		then		tree rules
3	rest	infinitive	me not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	let	future	I	TSAR				tree rules
5	rest	infinitive	TSAR not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the serpent		the gimlet	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to gimlet=Recipient
7	is a	present	the Tsar	a good master			to thee	tree rules

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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