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title: And the old woman said to the old man, "Go and buy a heifer, that th… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the old woman said to the old man, "Go and buy a heifer, that thy daughter may have something to look after!" Who acts: old woman, daughter. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 2

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And the old woman said to the old man, "Go and buy a heifer, that thy daughter may have something to look after!"

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**Who acts:** old woman, daughter · **What happens:** say, go, buy, have, look after · **To what, where:** old man, heifer, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (old woman, daughter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg29672:15:2
# text = And the old woman said to the old man, "Go and buy a heifer, that thy daughter may have something to look after!"
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	woman	woman	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	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	buy	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	heifer	heifer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
19	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
23	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the old woman |  | the old man |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **buy** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a heifer |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heifer=Theme |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | may | thy daughter | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **look after** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | thy daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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