Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 44
Dear little lady, sweet little lady, what are thy commands?" said she.--"Give me," said she, "a grand dress and let me have a carriage and horses, for I would go to God's House!"--And immediately she was dressed in silk and satin, with golden slippers on her feet, and the carriage came up and she went to church.
Who acts: commands, Dear little lady, Lady, me, I, carriage · What happens: be, say, give, let, have, go · To what, where: commands, Dear little lady, me, carriage, House, Lady · 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 (commands, Dear little lady, Lady, me), 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 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | amod |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | amod |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lady | punct |
| 5 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lady | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lady | amod |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lady | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 said | obj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 commands | cop |
| 11 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 commands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 commands | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 commands | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lady | parataxis |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 Give | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Give | punct |
| 20 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 Give | iobj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Give | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Give | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 let | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dress | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 dress | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 dress | det |
| 29 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dress | amod |
| 30 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 she | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 let | cc |
| 32 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | ccomp |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 let | obj |
| 34 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 let | xcomp |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 carriage | det |
| 36 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 have | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 horses | cc |
| 38 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 carriage | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 go | punct |
| 40 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 43 go | mark |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 go | nsubj |
| 42 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 go | aux |
| 43 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 have | parataxis |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 House | case |
| 45 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 House | nmod:poss |
| 46 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 45 God | case |
| 47 | House | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 go | obl |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 43 go | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 let | punct |
| 50 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 55 dressed | punct |
| 51 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 dressed | cc |
| 52 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 55 dressed | advmod |
| 53 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 dressed | nsubj |
| 54 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 dressed | aux:pass |
| 55 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 said | conj |
| 56 | in | in | ADP | _ | 57 silk | case |
| 57 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 dressed | obl |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 satin | cc |
| 59 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 silk | conj |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 slippers | punct |
| 61 | with | with | ADP | _ | 63 slippers | case |
| 62 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 63 slippers | amod |
| 63 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 dressed | obl |
| 64 | on | on | ADP | _ | 66 feet | case |
| 65 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 66 feet | nmod:poss |
| 66 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 63 slippers | nmod |
| 67 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 71 came | punct |
| 68 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 71 came | cc |
| 69 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 70 carriage | det |
| 70 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 71 came | nsubj |
| 71 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | parataxis |
| 72 | up | up | ADV | _ | 71 came | advmod |
| 73 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 75 went | cc |
| 74 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 75 went | nsubj |
| 75 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 71 came | conj |
| 76 | to | to | ADP | _ | 77 church | case |
| 77 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 75 went | obl |
| 78 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | thy commands | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | thy commands | Dear little lady and sweet little lady | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Dear little lady and sweet little lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | Lady | me | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have | infinitive | me not said here | a carriage and horses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Patient | ||||
| 7 | go | would | I | God's House | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | dress in a quote | past · passive | Lady | silk and satin | with golden slippers on Lady's feet; immediately property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 9 | come up in a quote | past | the carriage | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 10 | go in a quote | past | Lady | church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location |
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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