Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 116

Then said the Lord, "Go to the poor widow's; slay her cow, and eat."

Who acts: Lord · What happens: say, go, slay, eat · To what, where: cow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (Lord), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Lord	det
4	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Go	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Go	punct
7	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 widow	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 widow	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 widow	amod
11	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Go	obl
12	's	's	PART	_	11 widow	case
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 slay	punct
14	slay	slay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 cow	nmod:poss
16	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 slay	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 eat	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 eat	cc
19	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 slay	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 slay	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 slay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Lord		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	infinitive				to the poor widow	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to widow=Initial_Location
3	slay in a quote	infinitive		Widow's cow			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient
4	eat in a quote	infinitive					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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