Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 41
So the old woman and her daughter went to church, and the smart little stepdaughter made the fire burn up, and got the dinner ready, and then went to the willow-tree and said, "Willow-tree, willow-tree, come out of thy bark!
Who acts: old woman, smart little stepdaughter, fire, Willow tree · What happens: go, make, burn up, get, say, come out · To what, where: church, dinner, willow tree · 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 (old woman, smart little stepdaughter, fire, Willow tree), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 daughter | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woman | conj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 church | case |
| 10 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stepdaughter | det |
| 14 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stepdaughter | amod |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stepdaughter | amod |
| 16 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | nsubj |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fire | det |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 burn | nsubj |
| 20 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 made | xcomp |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 burn | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 got | cc |
| 24 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dinner | det |
| 26 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 got | obj |
| 27 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 got | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 went | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 went | cc |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 went | advmod |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 tree | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 tree | det |
| 34 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 tree | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 willow | punct |
| 36 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 said | cc |
| 38 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 went | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 tree | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 tree | punct |
| 41 | Willow | Willow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 tree | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 Willow | punct |
| 43 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 come | nsubj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 tree | punct |
| 45 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 tree | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 willow | punct |
| 47 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 tree | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 come | punct |
| 49 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 said | ccomp |
| 50 | out | out | ADV | _ | 49 come | advmod |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 bark | case |
| 52 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 53 bark | nmod:poss |
| 53 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 come | obl |
| 54 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the old woman and woman's daughter | church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the smart little stepdaughter | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | burn up | present | the fire | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | past | the old woman and woman's daughter not said here | the dinner | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dinner=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | go | past | the willow tree | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | say speech: express | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | come out in a quote | infinitive | Willow tree and willow tree | of thy bark; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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