--- title: He drills little holes with me, and then lets me rest; so I'll let h… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He drills little holes with me, and then lets me rest; so I'll let him rest too."--Then the serpent said to the gimlet, "So the Tsar's a good master to thee, eh! Who acts: TSAR, me, I, serpent. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/98/) [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 Voices At the Window, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/) / 98 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 98 He drills little holes with me, and then lets me rest; so I'll let him rest too."--Then the serpent said to the gimlet, "So the Tsar's a good master to thee, eh! **Who acts:** TSAR, me, I, serpent · **What happens:** drill, let, rest, say, be · **To what, where:** little holes, me, TSAR, gimlet, good master · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (TSAR, me, I, serpent), 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:pg29672:4:98 # text = He drills little holes with me, and then lets me rest; so I'll let him rest too."--Then the serpent said to the gimlet, "So the Tsar's a good master to thee, eh! 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 drills drill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 10 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 too too ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 -- -- PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 gimlet gimlet NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 So so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Tsar Tsar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 ccomp _ _ 40 to to ADP TO _ 41 case _ _ 41 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 eh eh INTJ UH _ 39 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drill** | present | TSAR | little holes | | | | with me | tree rules | | 2 | **let** | present | TSAR *not said here* | me | | | then | | tree rules | | 3 | **rest** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **let** | future | I | TSAR | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **rest** | infinitive | TSAR *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the serpent | | the gimlet | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to gimlet=Recipient | | 7 | **is a** | present | the Tsar | a good master | | | | to thee | tree rules | 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 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/99/) - ↑ back to [The Voices At the Window, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/)