Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 38
When Sunday came round, the old woman tricked her pet daughter out finely, and took her to church, but to the old man's daughter she said, "Look to the fire, thou slut!
Who acts: Sunday, old woman, woman, thou · What happens: come round, trick out, take, say, look, slut · To what, where: pet daughter, daughter, church · 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 (Sunday, old woman, woman, thou), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tricked | advcl |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tricked | nsubj |
| 9 | tricked | trick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | compound |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tricked | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 tricked | compound:prt |
| 14 | finely | finely | ADV | _ | 9 tricked | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tricked | parataxis |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 church | case |
| 20 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 said | cc |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 daughter | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 man | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 man | case |
| 28 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 said | obl |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 said | nsubj |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 took | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Look | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Look | punct |
| 33 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 said | ccomp |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 fire | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 fire | det |
| 36 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Look | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 slut | punct |
| 38 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 39 slut | nsubj |
| 39 | slut | slut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Look | obl |
| 40 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 tricked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come round | past | Sunday | round property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | trick out | past | the old woman | woman's pet daughter | finely property | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||
| 3 | take | past | daughter | church | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to church=Destination | ||||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | woman | the old man's daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | look in a quote | infinitive | to the fire | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to fire=Theme | |||||
| 6 | slut in a quote | thou | tree rules |
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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