Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 60
The old man's daughter very soon did it all, and then she went to the willow-tree and said, "Bright spring willow, bright spring willow, change thee, transform thee!"
Who acts: daughter · What happens: go, say, change · To what, where: willow tree, thee · 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 (daughter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 man | case |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 did | nsubj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 soon | advmod |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 did | advmod |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 change | aux |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 did | obj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 it | det |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 went | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 did | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 18 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 willow | punct |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 willow | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 willow | punct |
| 25 | Bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 willow | amod |
| 26 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 willow | compound |
| 27 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 willow | punct |
| 29 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 willow | amod |
| 30 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 willow | compound |
| 31 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 willow | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 change | punct |
| 33 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 34 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 change | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 transform | punct |
| 36 | transform | transform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 change | obl |
| 37 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 transform | nmod:unmarked |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 33 change | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 change | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | daughter | the willow tree | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | daughter not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | change in a quote | past · do-support | thee | transform thee obl | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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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