Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 31
She drives the heifer out to graze, and goes to sleep the whole day and does nothing."--"Then I'll kill it!" said he.--But the old man's daughter heard what he said, and went into the garden and began to weep bitterly.
Who acts: daughter, I, Father · What happens: drive out, graze, go, sleep, do, kill · To what, where: heifer, nothing, piece, garden · 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, I, Father), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drives | nsubj |
| 2 | drives | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 said | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 heifer | det |
| 4 | heifer | heifer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drives | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 drives | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 graze | mark |
| 7 | graze | graze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 drives | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 goes | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 goes | cc |
| 10 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 drives | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 sleep | mark |
| 12 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 goes | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sleep | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 does | cc |
| 17 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 drives | conj |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 does | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drives | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 drives | punct |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 drives | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 kill | punct |
| 23 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 kill | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 kill | nsubj |
| 25 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 kill | aux |
| 26 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 drives | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 kill | obj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 kill | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 kill | punct |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 said | nsubj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 40 heard | punct |
| 34 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 heard | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 man | det |
| 36 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 man | amod |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 38 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 37 man | case |
| 39 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 heard | nsubj |
| 40 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 said | parataxis |
| 41 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 40 heard | obj |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 said | nsubj |
| 43 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 what | acl:relcl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 went | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 went | cc |
| 46 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 heard | conj |
| 47 | into | into | ADP | _ | 49 garden | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 garden | det |
| 49 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 went | obl |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 began | cc |
| 51 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 went | conj |
| 52 | to | to | PART | _ | 53 weep | mark |
| 53 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 began | xcomp |
| 54 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 53 weep | advmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive out | present | daughter | the heifer | out property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heifer=Theme | |||
| 2 | graze | to-infinitive | daughter not said here | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | present | daughter not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | daughter not said here | day | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | do | present | daughter not said here | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | kill | future | I | piece | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 7 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | hear in a quote | past | the old man's daughter | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | go in a quote | past | the old man's daughter not said here | the garden | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location | ||||
| 11 | begin in a quote | past | the old man's daughter not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 12 | weep in a quote | to-infinitive | the old man's daughter not said here | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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