--- title: And the red calf said to her: "Do not sit there weeping, but go, put… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And the red calf said to her: "Do not sit there weeping, but go, put on these clothes, and above all, put on this pair of glass slippers, and go your way to church." Who acts: red calf, there. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (red calf, there), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:28:97 # text = And the red calf said to her: "Do not sit there weeping, but go, put on these clothes, and above all, put on this pair of glass slippers, and go your way to church." 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 calf calf NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 13 there their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Typo=Yes 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 weeping weeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 22 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 above above ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 28 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 31 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 slippers slipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the red calf | | shank | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **sit** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | there's weeping | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location weeping=Theme | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | this clothes | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | | 5 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | this pair of glass slippers | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on pair=Destination | | 6 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | your way | | church | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **weep** *in a quote* | | there *= they* | | | | | | nom weeping «act intransitive»: poss=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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/28/96/) - next →: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/28/98/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/28/)