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title: Then she went to the old man and said, "Father, kill and cut to piec… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she went to the old man and said, "Father, kill and cut to pieces this heifer of thine, for because of it thy daughter does not a stroke of work. Who acts: daughter, Father, thine. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 30

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Then she went to the old man and said, "Father, kill and cut to pieces this heifer of thine, for because of it thy daughter does not a stroke of work.

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**Who acts:** daughter, Father, thine · **What happens:** go, say, cut, stroke · **To what, where:** heifer, pieces, work · **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 (daughter, Father, thine), 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:pg29672:15:30
# text = Then she went to the old man and said, "Father, kill and cut to pieces this heifer of thine, for because of it thy daughter does not a stroke of work.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	heifer	heifer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
22	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
28	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | daughter | this heifer of thine stroke of work |  |  | then | to the old man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to man=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Father |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cut** *in a quote* | participle | daughter *not said here* |  |  | pieces |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to piece=Location |
| 4 | **stroke** *in a quote* |  | thine | work |  |  |  |  | nom stroke «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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