--- title: The people waited and waited and wondered and wondered that he was s… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The people waited and waited and wondered and wondered that he was so long about it, and at last they drained off the milk and found the Tsar at the bottom of the vat boiled quite red. Who acts: people, man, bottom. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg, with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/197/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Magic Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/) / 197 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 197 The people waited and waited and wondered and wondered that he was so long about it, and at last they drained off the milk and found the Tsar at the bottom of the vat boiled quite red. **Who acts:** people, man, bottom · **What happens:** wait, wonder, be, drain, find, boil · **To what, where:** last, Tsar, bottom This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, man, bottom), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:24:197 # text = The people waited and waited and wondered and wondered that he was so long about it, and at last they drained off the milk and found the Tsar at the bottom of the vat boiled quite red. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 wondered wonder VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 wondered wonder VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 obl _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 drained drain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 off off ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Tsar Tsar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 vat vat NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 36 boiled boil VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 37 quite quite ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | past | the people | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **wait** | past | the people *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | the people *not said here* | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | the people *not said here* | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | past | man | | | | | about ring; long *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **drain** | past | people | | | last | | off the milk | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Theme off milk=Source | | 7 | **find** | past | the people *not said here* | the Tsar | | the bottom | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent tsar=Theme at bottom=Asset | | 8 | **boil** | past | the bottom *not said here* | | | | | of the vat; red *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. - ← previous: [sentence 196](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/196/) - next →: [sentence 198](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/198/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/)