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title: Alas! little humble-bumble-bee," cried little Tsar Novishny, "how bu… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Alas! little humble-bumble-bee," cried little Tsar Novishny, "how burning hot 'tis getting. Who acts: little humble bumble bee, hot tis. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 9

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Alas! little humble-bumble-bee," cried little Tsar Novishny, "how burning hot 'tis getting.

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**Who acts:** little humble bumble bee, hot tis · **What happens:** cry, burn, get · **To what, where:** little Tsar, hot tis

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little humble bumble bee, hot tis), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg29672:5:9
# text = Alas! little humble-bumble-bee," cried little Tsar Novishny, "how burning hot 'tis getting.
1	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
4	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	bumble	bumble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	Novishny	Novishny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
18	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	advcl	_	_
19	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | little humble bumble bee | little Tsar |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsar=Topic |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund | little humble bumble bee *not said here* | hot tis |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tis=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | gerund | hot tis *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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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