Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 20

Oh, mammy!" she said, "my head ached so the whole day, and the sun scorched so, that I couldn't go down to the stream to moisten the flax."--"Never mind," said her mother, "lie down and sleep; it will do for another day."

Who acts: woman, head, sun, I, flax · What happens: say, ache, scorch, not go down, moisten, not mind · To what, where: flax, mother · 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, head, sun, I), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 mammy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	mammy	mammy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 mammy	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 mammy	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ached	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 ached	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ached	nsubj
12	ached	ache	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
13	so	so	ADV	_	12 ached	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 day	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 day	amod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ached	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 scorched	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 scorched	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun	det
20	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 scorched	nsubj
21	scorched	scorch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	conj
22	so	so	ADV	_	21 scorched	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 go	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
27	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 go	advmod
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 scorched	conj
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 stream	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 stream	det
32	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 moisten	mark
34	moisten	moisten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 go	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 flax	det
36	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 moisten	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 mind	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 mind	punct
41	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	42 mind	advmod
42	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 said	ccomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 mind	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 mind	punct
45	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 mother	nmod:poss
47	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 said	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 lie	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 lie	punct
50	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 said	ccomp
51	down	down	ADP	_	50 lie	compound:prt
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 sleep	cc
53	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 lie	conj
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 do	punct
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 do	nsubj
56	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 do	aux
57	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
58	for	for	ADP	_	60 day	case
59	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	60 day	det
60	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 do	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	57 do	punct
62	"	"	PUNCT	_	57 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ache	past	my head		day		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	scorch	participle	the sun				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	not go down	could	I			to the stream; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	moisten	to-infinitive	I not said here	the flax			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flax=Patient
6	not mind	infinitive					vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	say speech: assert in a quote	past	woman not said here	woman's mother			tree rules
8	lie down	infinitive					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	sleep	present					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	do	future	flax		day		vn act-114-1 «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: «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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