Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 29

Then cried the little Tsar, "Alas! bullock, it begins to burn again.

Who acts: way · What happens: cry, begin, burn · To what, where: little Tsar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 cried	advmod
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Tsar	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Tsar	amod
5	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bullock	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 bullock	punct
8	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	10 bullock	discourse
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 Alas	punct
10	bullock	bullock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 begins	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 begins	nsubj
13	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 burn	mark
15	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 begins	xcomp
16	again	again	ADV	_	15 burn	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		the little Tsar	then	bullock obl	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsar=Topic
2	begin in a quote	present	way				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	burn in a quote	to-infinitive	way not said here		again		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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