--- title: But now the water was boiling, and his sister ran up and said to him… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But now the water was boiling, and his sister ran up and said to him, "Come, boil thyself, be quick; how much longer art thou going to keep us waiting?" Who acts: water, sister, thou, us. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, sister, thou, us), 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:pg29672:6:29 # text = But now the water was boiling, and his sister ran up and said to him, "Come, boil thyself, be quick; how much longer art thou going to keep us waiting?" 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 boiling boil VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 Come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 boil boil VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 22 thyself thyself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 25 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 27 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 28 much much ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 nsubj _ _ 30 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 31 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 nsubj _ _ 32 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 parataxis _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ? ? PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **boil** | past · progressive | the water | | | | now | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **run up** | past | Tsar's sister | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Tsar's sister *not said here* | | Tsar | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 4 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | Tsar's sister *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **boil** *in a quote* | infinitive | Tsar's sister *not said here* | thyself | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thyself=Patient | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | quick *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund | thou | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **keep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | us | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **wait** *in a quote* | gerund | us *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/6/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/6/30/) - ↑ back to [The Voices At the Window, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/6/)