Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 35

Then her father slew the heifer, and she went to her stepmother and said, "Prythee, let me have the entrails of the heifer to wash!"--And her stepmother answered, "As if I would let anybody else do such work but thee!"--Then she went and washed them, and sure enough she found the grain of corn, planted it by the porch, trod down the earth, and watered it a little.

Who acts: father, daughter, Prythee, stepmother, anybody · What happens: slay, go, say, let, have, wash · To what, where: heifer, daughter, entrails, such work, grain, earth · 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 (father, daughter, Prythee, stepmother), 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	4 slew	advmod
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slew	nsubj
4	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heifer	det
6	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slew	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slew	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 stepmother	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 stepmother	nmod:poss
13	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
18	Prythee	Prythee	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 let	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Prythee	punct
20	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 let	obj
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 entrails	det
24	entrails	entrail	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 have	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 heifer	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 heifer	det
27	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 entrails	nmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 wash	mark
29	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 entrails	acl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 answered	punct
33	And	and	CCONJ	_	36 answered	cc
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 stepmother	nmod:poss
35	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 answered	nsubj
36	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slew	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 let	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 let	punct
39	As	as	SCONJ	_	43 let	mark
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 As	fixed
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 let	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 let	aux
43	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 answered	ccomp
44	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	46 do	nsubj
45	else	else	ADV	_	44 anybody	advmod
46	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 let	parataxis
47	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 work	amod
48	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 do	obj
49	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 thee	cc
50	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	46 do	conj
51	!	!	PUNCT	_	43 let	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 let	punct
53	--	--	PUNCT	_	56 went	punct
54	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	56 went	advmod
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 went	nsubj
56	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slew	parataxis
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 washed	cc
58	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 went	conj
59	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 washed	obj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 sure	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 sure	cc
62	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slew	parataxis
63	enough	enough	ADV	_	62 sure	advmod
64	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 found	nsubj
65	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 sure	ccomp
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 grain	det
67	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 found	obj
68	of	of	ADP	_	69 corn	case
69	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 grain	nmod
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 planted	punct
71	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	62 sure	conj
72	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	71 planted	obj
73	by	by	ADP	_	75 porch	case
74	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	75 porch	det
75	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 planted	obl
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	77 trod	punct
77	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slew	conj
78	down	down	ADP	_	80 earth	case
79	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	80 earth	det
80	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 trod	obl
81	,	,	PUNCT	_	83 watered	punct
82	and	and	CCONJ	_	83 watered	cc
83	watered	water	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slew	conj
84	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	83 watered	obj
85	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	86 little	det
86	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	83 watered	obl:unmarked
87	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 slew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	slay	past	daughter's father	the heifer	then		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heifer=Patient
2	go	past	daughter			to daughter's stepmother	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stepmother=Initial_Location
3	say speech: express	past	daughter not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	let in a quote	infinitive	Prythee	daughter			tree rules
5	have in a quote	infinitive	daughter not said here	the entrails of the heifer			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entrail=Patient
6	wash in a quote	to-infinitive	daughter not said here	the entrails of the heifer not said here			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	answer speech: express	past	daughter's stepmother				tree rules
8	let in a quote	would	daughter's stepmother = stepmother				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
9	do in a quote	present	anybody	such work			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
10	go	past	daughter		then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	wash	past	daughter not said here	entrails = entrail			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
12	find	past	daughter	the grain of corn			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Topic
13	plant	participle	daughter's father not said here	grain		by the porch	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme by porch=Destination
14	tread down	past	daughter's father not said here	the earth			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location earth=Theme
15	water	past	daughter's father not said here	grain		a little obl:unmarked	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination

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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