Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 2

And the old woman said to the old man, "Go and buy a heifer, that thy daughter may have something to look after!"

Who acts: old woman, daughter · What happens: say, go, buy, have, look after · To what, where: old man, heifer, that · 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 (old woman, daughter), 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	_	5 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 man	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Go	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Go	punct
12	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 buy	cc
14	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 Go	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 heifer	det
16	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 buy	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 have	obj
19	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 daughter	nmod:poss
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	nsubj
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Go	conj
23	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 have	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 look	mark
25	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 something	acl
26	after	after	ADP	_	25 look	compound:prt
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 Go	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	the old woman		the old man	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	infinitive				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	buy in a quote	infinitive		a heifer		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heifer=Theme
4	have in a quote	may	thy daughter	that		tree rules
5	look after in a quote	to-infinitive	thy daughter not said here			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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