Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 26

Tis weary work!" cried he; but the starling said to him, "Not so fast, not so fast, little Tsar Novishny, for thy dogs have already gnawed their way through ten doors!"

Who acts: Tis weary work, starling · What happens: cry, say, gnaw · To what, where: Tsar, way, ten doors · 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 (Tis weary work, 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	Tis	Tis	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 work	compound
2	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 work	amod
3	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 work	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 work	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 starling	det
11	starling	starling	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fast	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 fast	punct
17	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 fast	advmod
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 fast	advmod
19	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 said	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fast	punct
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 fast	advmod
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 fast	advmod
23	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 fast	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Tsar	punct
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Tsar	amod
26	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 fast	nsubj
27	Novishny	Novishny	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Tsar	flat
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 gnawed	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 dogs	case
30	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 dogs	nmod:poss
31	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 gnawed	obl
32	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 gnawed	aux
33	already	already	ADV	_	34 gnawed	advmod
34	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	conj
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 way	nmod:poss
36	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gnawed	obj
37	through	through	ADP	_	39 doors	case
38	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 doors	nummod
39	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 gnawed	obl
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	Tis weary work					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the starling		Tsar		fast property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	gnaw	present · perfect	the starling not said here	dogs's way		ten doors	for thy dogs	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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