Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 24

But the heifer came up to her and said, "Tell me, little maiden, wherefore dost thou weep?"--"Why should I not weep?" said she, and she told the heifer all about it.--"Grieve not!" said the heifer, "it will all come right, but lie down to sleep."--So she lay down and immediately fell asleep.

Who acts: heifer, thou, woman, flax · What happens: come up, say, tell, weep, not weep, not grieve · To what, where: woman, heifer · 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, thou, woman, flax), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 came	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heifer	det
3	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 said	advcl
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Tell	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Tell	punct
12	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 Tell	iobj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 little	punct
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 maiden	obl:unmarked
16	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Tell	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 weep	punct
18	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	21 weep	advmod
19	dost	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 weep	aux
20	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 weep	nsubj
21	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Tell	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 weep	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 weep	punct
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 weep	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 weep	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	12 Tell	conj
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 Tell	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Tell	punct
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 said	nsubj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 told	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 told	cc
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 told	nsubj
38	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 said	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 heifer	det
40	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 told	obj
41	all	all	ADV	_	43 it	advmod
42	about	about	ADP	_	43 it	case
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 told	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct
45	--	--	PUNCT	_	47 Grieve	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 Grieve	punct
47	Grieve	grieve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 said	parataxis
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 Grieve	advmod
49	!	!	PUNCT	_	47 Grieve	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 Grieve	punct
51	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 said	parataxis
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 heifer	det
53	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 said	nsubj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 come	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	59 come	punct
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 come	nsubj
57	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 come	aux
58	all	all	ADV	_	59 come	advmod
59	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 said	parataxis
60	right	right	ADV	_	59 come	advmod
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 lie	punct
62	but	but	CCONJ	_	63 lie	cc
63	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 come	conj
64	down	down	ADV	_	63 lie	advmod
65	to	to	PART	_	66 sleep	mark
66	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 lie	advcl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	51 said	punct
68	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 said	punct
69	--	--	PUNCT	_	72 lay	punct
70	So	so	ADV	_	72 lay	advmod
71	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	72 lay	nsubj
72	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 said	parataxis
73	down	down	ADV	_	72 lay	advmod
74	and	and	CCONJ	_	76 fell	cc
75	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	76 fell	advmod
76	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	72 lay	conj
77	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	76 fell	xcomp
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the heifer	woman		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
2	say speech: ask	past	the heifer not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		the heifer = heifer	maiden property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	weep in a quote	present · do-support	thou		wherefore property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not weep in a quote	should	woman			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: express	past	woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	tell speech: assert	past	woman	the heifer	about flax	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent heifer=Recipient about it=Topic
8	not grieve in a quote	infinitive				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
9	say speech: assert	past	the heifer			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	come in a quote	future	flax		all, right property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	lie down in a quote	infinitive	flax not said here		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	sleep in a quote	to-infinitive	flax not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
13	lie down	past	woman		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
14	fall	past	woman not said here		asleep, immediately property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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