Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 20

As he was returning to the hut his sister said to him, "That water does not boil up quickly enough!

Who acts: Tsar, sister, water · What happens: return, say, not boil up · To what, where: hut, 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, sister, water), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 returning	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 returning	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 returning	aux
4	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 boil	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 hut	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hut	det
7	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 returning	obl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sister	nmod:poss
9	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hut	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 returning	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 boil	punct
15	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 water	det
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 boil	nsubj
17	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 boil	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 boil	advmod
19	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 boil	compound:prt
21	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	19 boil	advmod
22	enough	enough	ADV	_	19 boil	advmod
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 boil	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	return	past · progressive	Tsar			to the hut result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hut=Result
2	say speech: express	past	Tsar's sister	the hut not said here	Tsar		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hut=Topic to he=Recipient
3	not boil up in a quote	present · do-support	that water			enough, quickly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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