Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 17

The next day she said to her own daughter, "Dear little daughter, drive the heifer out to graze, and here is a little piece of flax for thee, unravel it and reel it, or unravel it not and reel it not as thou likest best, but bring it home with thee."

Who acts: woman · What happens: say, drive out, graze, be, unravel, reel · To what, where: own daughter, heifer, little piece, flax · 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 (woman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl:unmarked
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 daughter	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 daughter	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 daughter	amod
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 daughter	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 daughter	punct
12	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 daughter	amod
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 daughter	amod
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 daughter	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drive	punct
16	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 heifer	det
18	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drive	obj
19	out	out	ADV	_	16 drive	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 graze	mark
21	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 drive	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 piece	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 piece	cc
24	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 piece	advmod
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 piece	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 piece	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 piece	amod
28	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 flax	case
30	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 piece	nmod
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 thee	case
32	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 piece	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 unravel	punct
34	unravel	unravel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 unravel	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 reel	cc
37	reel	reel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 unravel	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 reel	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 unravel	punct
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 unravel	cc
41	unravel	unravel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 unravel	conj
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 unravel	obj
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 unravel	advmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 reel	cc
45	reel	reel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 unravel	conj
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 reel	obj
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 reel	advmod
48	as	as	ADV	_	51 best	advmod
49	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	51 best	nsubj
50	likest	like	ADJ	Degree=Sup	51 best	nsubj
51	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	45 reel	parataxis
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 bring	punct
53	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 bring	cc
54	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 bring	obj
56	home	home	ADV	_	54 bring	advmod
57	with	with	ADP	_	58 thee	case
58	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	54 bring	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	54 bring	punct
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	54 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	woman		woman's own daughter and Dear little daughter		day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient clause=Topic
2	drive out in a quote	infinitive		the heifer				out property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heifer=Theme
3	graze in a quote	to-infinitive							vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present		a little piece		here		of flax; for thee	tree rules
5	unravel in a quote	infinitive	woman not said here	flax					tree rules
6	reel in a quote	infinitive	woman not said here	flax					tree rules
7	not unravel in a quote	infinitive	woman not said here	flax					tree rules
8	not reel in a quote	infinitive	woman not said here	flax					tree rules
9	bring in a quote	infinitive		flax				with thee; home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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.

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