Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 32

The heifer came to her and said, "Tell me, dear little maiden, wherefore dost thou weep?"--"Why should I _not_ weep," she said, "when they want to kill thee?"--"Don't grieve," said the heifer, "it will all come right.

Who acts: heifer, daughter, man, weep · What happens: come, say, tell, do, weep, not weep · To what, where: daughter, heifer, thou, thee · 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, daughter, man, weep), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 heifer	det
2	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Tell	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Tell	punct
10	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 Tell	iobj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Tell	punct
13	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Tell	xcomp
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 maiden	amod
15	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dear	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dost	punct
17	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	18 dost	advmod
18	dost	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 Tell	conj
19	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 dost	obj
20	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 dost	xcomp
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 Tell	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Tell	punct
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 weep	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 weep	punct
25	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	31 weep	advmod
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 weep	aux
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 weep	nsubj
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 weep	punct
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 weep	advmod
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 weep	punct
31	weep	weep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 said	nsubj
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 want	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 want	punct
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 want	advmod
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 want	nsubj
40	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 said	ccomp
41	to	to	PART	_	42 kill	mark
42	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 want	xcomp
43	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	42 kill	obj
44	?	?	PUNCT	_	40 want	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 want	punct
46	--	--	PUNCT	_	50 grieve	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 grieve	punct
48	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	50 grieve	aux
49	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 grieve	advmod
50	grieve	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 said	ccomp
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 grieve	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 grieve	punct
53	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 said	conj
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 heifer	det
55	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 said	nsubj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 come	punct
57	"	"	PUNCT	_	61 come	punct
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 come	nsubj
59	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 come	aux
60	all	all	ADV	_	61 come	advmod
61	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 said	conj
62	right	right	ADV	_	61 come	advmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the heifer		daughter		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	dear property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	do in a quote	present		thou		wherefore property	tree rules
5	weep in a quote	infinitive					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not weep in a quote	should	daughter				tree rules
7	say speech: ask	past	daughter				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	want in a quote	present	man				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
9	kill not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	man not said here	thee			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme
10	not grieve in a quote	infinitive · do-support					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
11	say speech: assert	past	the heifer				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
12	come in a quote	future	weep			all, right property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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