Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 15

Then he went and chopped wood, but as he was doing so, a starling flew out and said to him, "Not so fast, not so fast, little Tsar Novishny.

Who acts: Tsar, starling · What happens: go, chop, do, fly out, say · To what, where: wood, Tsar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, starling), 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	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 chopped	cc
5	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chopped	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 doing	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 doing	cc
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 doing	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 doing	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 doing	aux
12	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	conj
13	so	so	ADV	_	12 doing	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flew	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 starling	det
16	starling	starling	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flew	nsubj
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 flew	compound:prt
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 flew	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fast	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 fast	punct
25	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 fast	advmod
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 fast	advmod
27	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 said	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fast	punct
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 fast	advmod
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 fast	advmod
31	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 fast	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Tsar	punct
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Tsar	amod
34	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 fast	nsubj
35	Novishny	Novishny	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Tsar	flat
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Tsar			then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	chop	past	Tsar not said here	wood				vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient
3	do	past · progressive	Tsar					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fly out	past	a starling					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	a starling not said here		Tsar		fast property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

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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