Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 61
Then still statelier dames stepped forth from the willow-tree, "Dear little lady, sweet little lady, what commands hast thou to give?"
Who acts: statelier dames, Dear little lady, thou · What happens: step, command, have, give · To what, where: willow tree, thou · 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 (statelier dames, Dear little 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 | 5 stepped | advmod |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 statelier | advmod |
| 3 | statelier | stately | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 dames | amod |
| 4 | dames | dame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stepped | nsubj |
| 5 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 stepped | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 9 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 willow | punct |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stepped | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lady | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 lady | punct |
| 14 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lady | amod |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lady | amod |
| 16 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hast | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lady | punct |
| 18 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lady | amod |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lady | amod |
| 20 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lady | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 commands | punct |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 commands | nsubj |
| 23 | commands | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 lady | parataxis |
| 24 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stepped | parataxis |
| 25 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 hast | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 give | mark |
| 27 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 hast | xcomp |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 stepped | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | statelier dames | the willow tree | then | forth property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | command in a quote | present | Dear little lady and sweet little lady | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | Dear little lady and sweet little lady | thou | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | thou not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: 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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