Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 9

Alas! little humble-bumble-bee," cried little Tsar Novishny, "how burning hot 'tis getting.

Who acts: little humble bumble bee, hot tis · What happens: cry, burn, get · To what, where: little Tsar, hot tis

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 (little humble bumble bee, hot tis), 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	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	8 bee	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Alas	punct
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bee	amod
4	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bee	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 bumble	punct
6	bumble	bumble	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bee	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 bumble	punct
8	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bee	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Tsar	amod
13	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obj
14	Novishny	Novishny	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Tsar	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 burning	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 burning	punct
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 burning	advmod
18	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 cried	advcl
19	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tis	amod
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 tis	punct
21	tis	tis	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burning	obj
22	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 tis	acl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	little humble bumble bee	little Tsar	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsar=Topic
2	burn	gerund	little humble bumble bee not said here	hot tis	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tis=Theme
3	get	gerund	hot tis not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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