Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 62
She told them what she wanted, and they gave her a gorgeous dress, and put golden shoes on her feet, and she went to church in a grand carriage.
Who acts: Lady, dames · What happens: tell, want, give, put, go · To what, where: dames, gorgeous dress, Lady, golden shoes, feet, grand carriage · 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, dames), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 told | obj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wanted | nsubj |
| 6 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dress | det |
| 13 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dress | amod |
| 14 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 put | cc |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | conj |
| 18 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shoes | amod |
| 19 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 put | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 feet | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 feet | nmod:poss |
| 22 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 put | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 went | nsubj |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 church | case |
| 28 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 carriage | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 carriage | det |
| 31 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 carriage | amod |
| 32 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Lady | dames = dame | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | want | past | Lady | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | give | past | dames = dame | a gorgeous dress | Lady | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient dress=Theme | |||
| 4 | put | infinitive | Lady not said here | golden shoes | Lady's feet | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme on foot=Destination | |||
| 5 | go | past | Lady | a grand carriage | to 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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