Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 57
Then she said to the old man's daughter, "As for thee, thou slut! though thou _hast_ sewn the shirts and bleached them, thou art but a dirty under-wench!"
Who acts: Lady, thou · What happens: say, slut, have, sew, bleach · To what, where: daughter, shirts · 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 (Lady, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sewn | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 daughter | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 man | case |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thee | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 thee | punct |
| 12 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 14 thee | case |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 As | fixed |
| 14 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 said | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 slut | punct |
| 16 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 slut | nsubj |
| 17 | slut | slut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thee | conj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 19 | though | though | ADV | _ | 22 hast | advmod |
| 20 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 hast | nsubj |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 hast | punct |
| 22 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 sewn | advcl |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 hast | punct |
| 24 | sewn | sew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 shirts | det |
| 26 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sewn | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bleached | cc |
| 28 | bleached | bleach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sewn | conj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 bleached | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 art | punct |
| 31 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 art | nsubj |
| 32 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 sewn | parataxis |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 dirty | cc |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 dirty | det |
| 35 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 art | conj |
| 36 | under | under | ADP | _ | 38 wench | case |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 under | punct |
| 38 | wench | wench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 dirty | obl |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 35 dirty | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 art | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Lady | the old man's daughter | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient | |||
| 2 | slut in a quote | thou | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | thou | though property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sew in a quote | participle | the shirts | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Product | |||||
| 5 | bleach in a quote | past | shirts = shirt | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=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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