Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 56

Is the dinner ready?" said she.--"Yes, it is ready."--"Hast thou sewn the shirts?"--"Yes, the shirts are sewn too."--Then they sat down to meat, and began to relate how they had seen such a beautiful young lady at church.--"The Tsarevich," said the old woman, "instead of saying his prayers, was looking at her all the while, so goodly was she."

Who acts: dinner, Lady, shirts, Tsarevich, prayers · What happens: be, say, have, sew, sit down, begin · To what, where: thou, shirts, beautiful young lady, church, 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 (dinner, Lady, shirts, Tsarevich), 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dinner	det
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ready	nsubj
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ready	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 ready	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	parataxis
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ready	punct
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 ready	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 ready	punct
12	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	16 ready	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Yes	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ready	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 ready	cop
16	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ready	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ready	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 ready	punct
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 Hast	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Hast	punct
21	Hast	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	parataxis
22	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 Hast	obj
23	sewn	sew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 Hast	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 shirts	det
25	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sewn	obj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ready	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 ready	punct
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 sewn	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 sewn	punct
30	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	35 sewn	discourse
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Yes	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 shirts	det
33	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 sewn	nsubj:pass
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 sewn	aux:pass
35	sewn	sew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ready	conj
36	too	too	ADV	_	35 sewn	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ready	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 ready	punct
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 sat	punct
40	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 sat	advmod
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 sat	nsubj
42	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	parataxis
43	down	down	ADP	_	42 sat	compound:prt
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 meat	case
45	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sat	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 began	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 began	cc
48	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 sat	conj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 relate	mark
50	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 began	xcomp
51	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	54 seen	advmod
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 seen	nsubj
53	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 seen	aux
54	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 relate	advcl
55	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	59 lady	det:predet
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 lady	det
57	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 lady	amod
58	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 lady	amod
59	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 seen	obj
60	at	at	ADP	_	61 church	case
61	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 lady	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ready	punct
63	--	--	PUNCT	_	69 said	punct
64	"	"	PUNCT	_	66 Tsarevich	punct
65	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 Tsarevich	det
66	Tsarevich	Tsarevich	PROPN	Number=Sing	69 said	nsubj
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 Tsarevich	punct
68	"	"	PUNCT	_	66 Tsarevich	punct
69	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	conj
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 woman	det
71	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 woman	amod
72	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 said	nsubj
73	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 woman	punct
74	"	"	PUNCT	_	72 woman	punct
75	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	77 saying	mark
76	of	of	ADP	_	75 instead	fixed
77	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	69 said	advcl
78	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	79 prayers	nmod:poss
79	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	77 saying	obj
80	,	,	PUNCT	_	82 looking	punct
81	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	82 looking	aux
82	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	69 said	advcl
83	at	at	ADP	_	84 her	case
84	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	82 looking	obl
85	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	87 while	det:predet
86	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	87 while	det
87	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	82 looking	obl
88	,	,	PUNCT	_	90 goodly	punct
89	so	so	ADV	_	90 goodly	advmod
90	goodly	goodly	ADV	_	92 she	advmod
91	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	92 she	cop
92	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ready	obl
93	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ready	punct
94	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the dinner				ready property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Lady					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	dinner				ready property	tree rules
4	have	present		thou				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient
5	sew	participle		the shirts				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Product
6	sew	present · passive		the shirts				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
7	sit down in a quote	past	shirts = shirt			then	to meat	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	begin in a quote	past	shirts = shirt not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	relate in a quote	to-infinitive	shirts = shirt not said here					vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
10	see in a quote	past · perfect	shirts = shirt	such beautiful young lady	church			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus
11	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Tsarevich					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
12	say speech: assert	gerund	Tsarevich's prayers					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
13	look	past · progressive	the Tsarevich not said here			while	at Lady	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
14	is a	past		Lady			goodly property	tree rules
15	pray		Tsarevich					nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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