Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 12

And the heifer said to her, "Tell me, dear little maiden, wherefore dost thou weep?"--"Alas! why should I not weep?

Who acts: heifer · What happens: say, tell, do, weep, not weep · To what, where: dog, heifer, thou · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heifer), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heifer	det
3	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Tell	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Tell	punct
9	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 Tell	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Tell	punct
12	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Tell	xcomp
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 maiden	amod
14	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dear	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dost	punct
16	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	17 dost	advmod
17	dost	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Tell	ccomp
18	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 dost	obj
19	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 dost	xcomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 weep	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 dost	punct
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 Alas	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Alas	punct
24	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	9 Tell	discourse
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 Alas	punct
26	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	30 weep	advmod
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 weep	aux
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 weep	nsubj
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 weep	advmod
30	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Tell	ccomp
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	the heifer		dog		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	the heifer not said here		the heifer = heifer	dear property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do in a quote	present		thou		wherefore property	tree rules
4	weep in a quote	infinitive					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not weep in a quote	should	the heifer = heifer				vn breathe-40.1.2 «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: «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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