Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 29
But now the water was boiling, and his sister ran up and said to him, "Come, boil thyself, be quick; how much longer art thou going to keep us waiting?"
Who acts: water, sister, thou, us · What happens: boil, run up, say, come, be, go · To what, where: Tsar, thyself, us · 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 (water, sister, thou, us), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 boiling | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 boiling | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 water | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boiling | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 boiling | aux |
| 6 | boiling | boil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 ran | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ran | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sister | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 ran | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ran | conj |
| 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 | _ | 19 Come | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Come | punct |
| 19 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 boil | punct |
| 21 | boil | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 Come | conj |
| 22 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 21 boil | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 quick | punct |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 quick | cop |
| 25 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Come | advmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 art | punct |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 much | advmod |
| 28 | much | much | ADV | _ | 29 longer | advmod |
| 29 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 art | nsubj |
| 30 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ran | parataxis |
| 31 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 going | nsubj |
| 32 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 art | parataxis |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 keep | mark |
| 34 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 going | xcomp |
| 35 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 keep | obj |
| 36 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 keep | xcomp |
| 37 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 32 going | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | past · progressive | the water | now | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | run up | past | Tsar's sister | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Tsar's sister not said here | Tsar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | infinitive | Tsar's sister not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | boil in a quote | infinitive | Tsar's sister not said here | thyself | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thyself=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | infinitive | quick property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | go in a quote | gerund | thou | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | keep in a quote | to-infinitive | thou not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | wait in a quote | gerund | us not said here | vn exist-47.1 «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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