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title: Tis weary work!" cried he; but the starling said to him, "Not so fas… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 26

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Tis weary work!" cried he; but the starling said to him, "Not so fast, not so fast, little Tsar Novishny, for thy dogs have already gnawed their way through ten doors!"

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**Who acts:** Tis weary work, starling · **What happens:** cry, say, gnaw · **To what, where:** Tsar, way, ten doors · **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 (Tis weary work, starling), 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:pg29672:6:26
# text = Tis weary work!" cried he; but the starling said to him, "Not so fast, not so fast, little Tsar Novishny, for thy dogs have already gnawed their way through ten doors!"
1	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	starling	starling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
27	Novishny	Novishny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	already	already	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	through	through	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	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 | Tis weary work |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the starling |  | Tsar |  |  | fast *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 3 | **gnaw** | present · perfect | the starling *not said here* | dogs's way |  | ten doors |  | for thy dogs | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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