Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 33

But the starling flew up to him and said, "Not so fast, little Tsar Novishny, for lo! thy dogs are running to thee with all their might."

Who acts: starling, dogs · What happens: fly up, say, run · To what, where: 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 (starling, dogs), 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	_	4 flew	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 starling	det
3	starling	starling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 flew	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fast	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 fast	punct
12	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 fast	advmod
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 fast	advmod
14	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Tsar	punct
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Tsar	amod
17	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 fast	nsubj
18	Novishny	Novishny	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Tsar	flat
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 running	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 running	mark
21	lo	lo	INTJ	_	26 running	discourse
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 lo	punct
23	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 dogs	nmod:poss
24	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 running	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 running	aux
26	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 thee	case
28	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 running	obl
29	with	with	SCONJ	_	32 might	mark
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 might	det:predet
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 might	nmod:poss
32	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 running	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	fly up	past	the starling	Tsar		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result
2	say speech: express	past	the starling not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	run in a quote	present · progressive	thy dogs		to thee result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to thou=Result

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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