Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Nobles and Princes], sentence 5
Then she said to her own daughter, "Go, my dear little daughter, tidy thyself up a bit, and wash thy little feet!"--But the old man's daughter she drove behind the stove, and the poor thing was neither washed nor dressed. "
Who acts: woman, daughter · What happens: say, go, wash, drive, dress · To what, where: own daughter, dear little daughter, little feet, stove, poor thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Nobles and Princes]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, 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 | 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 | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 daughter | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 daughter | amod |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
| 10 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 daughter | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 daughter | amod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 daughter | amod |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Go | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tidy | punct |
| 17 | tidy | tidy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 daughter | amod |
| 18 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 17 tidy | nsubj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 tidy | compound:prt |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bit | det |
| 21 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tidy | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wash | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wash | cc |
| 24 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Go | parataxis |
| 25 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 feet | nmod:poss |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 feet | amod |
| 27 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 wash | obj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 wash | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 wash | punct |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 38 drove | punct |
| 31 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 drove | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 man | det |
| 33 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 man | amod |
| 34 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 man | case |
| 36 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 drove | nsubj |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 drove | nsubj |
| 38 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 39 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 41 stove | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 stove | det |
| 41 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 drove | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 washed | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 washed | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 thing | det |
| 45 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 thing | amod |
| 46 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 washed | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 washed | aux:pass |
| 48 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 49 washed | advmod |
| 49 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | parataxis |
| 50 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 51 dressed | cc |
| 51 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 washed | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 51 dressed | punct |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | woman | woman's own daughter | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | my dear little daughter | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wash in a quote | infinitive | thy little feet | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | |||||
| 4 | drive | past | the old man's daughter | the stove | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | wash | past · passive | the poor thing | neither property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | dress | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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