Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 26
Then she drove the heifer home, and gave the cloth to her stepmother.
Who acts: woman · What happens: drive, give · To what, where: heifer, cloth, stepmother
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drove | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drove | nsubj |
| 3 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heifer | det |
| 5 | heifer | heifer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drove | obj |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 drove | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drove | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cloth | det |
| 11 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 stepmother | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | woman | the heifer | then | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heifer=Theme | ||
| 2 | give | past | woman not said here | the cloth | woman's stepmother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme to stepmother=Recipient |
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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