Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 28

Again he went to the forest for more wood, and the starling said to him, "Not so fast, not so fast, little Tsar, for thy dogs have already gnawed their way through all the doors, and are now resting!"

Who acts: Tsar, starling · What happens: go, say, gnaw, rest · To what, where: forest, Tsar, dogs, 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 (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	Again	again	ADV	_	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	to	to	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 wood	case
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 wood	amod
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 starling	det
13	starling	starling	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fast	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 fast	punct
19	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 fast	advmod
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 fast	advmod
21	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 said	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fast	punct
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 fast	advmod
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 fast	advmod
25	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 fast	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Tsar	punct
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Tsar	amod
28	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 fast	vocative
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 gnawed	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 gnawed	mark
31	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 dogs	nmod:poss
32	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 gnawed	nsubj:pass
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 gnawed	aux
34	already	already	ADV	_	35 gnawed	advmod
35	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 said	conj
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 way	nmod:poss
37	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gnawed	obj
38	through	through	ADP	_	41 doors	case
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 doors	det:predet
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 doors	det
41	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 gnawed	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 resting	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 resting	cc
44	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 resting	aux
45	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	46 resting	advmod
46	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	46 resting	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Tsar			the forest	again	for more wood	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location
2	say speech: express	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 in a quote	present · perfect · passive		thy dogs		all doors			tree rules
4	rest in a quote	present · progressive	Tsar not said here				now		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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