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title: As he was returning to the hut his sister said to him, "That water d… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As he was returning to the hut his sister said to him, "That water does not boil up quickly enough! Who acts: Tsar, sister, water. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3, 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 3, sentence 20

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As he was returning to the hut his sister said to him, "That water does not boil up quickly enough!

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**Who acts:** Tsar, sister, water · **What happens:** return, say, not boil up · **To what, where:** hut, Tsar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Tsar, sister, water), 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:pg29672:6:20
# text = As he was returning to the hut his sister said to him, "That water does not boil up quickly enough!
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	boil	boil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past · progressive | Tsar |  |  |  |  | to the hut *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to hut=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Tsar's sister | the hut *not said here* | Tsar |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hut=Topic to he=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **boil up** *in a quote* | present · do-support | that water |  |  |  |  | enough, quickly *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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