Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 30

Then she went to the old man and said, "Father, kill and cut to pieces this heifer of thine, for because of it thy daughter does not a stroke of work.

Who acts: daughter, Father, thine · What happens: go, say, cut, stroke · To what, where: heifer, pieces, work · 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 (daughter, Father, thine), 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 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 man	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Father	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Father	punct
12	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kill	punct
14	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Father	appos
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cut	cc
16	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 pieces	case
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cut	obl
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 heifer	det
20	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	33 stroke	case
22	thine	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	33 stroke	nmod:poss
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stroke	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	33 stroke	case
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 stroke	mark
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 because	fixed
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 stroke	nsubj
28	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	29 daughter	nmod:poss
29	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stroke	nsubj
30	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 stroke	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 stroke	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 stroke	det
33	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heifer	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 work	case
35	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stroke	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	daughter	this heifer of thine stroke of work		then	to the old man	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to man=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Father					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	cut in a quote	participle	daughter not said here		pieces			vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to piece=Location
4	stroke in a quote		thine	work				nom stroke «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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