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title: Yet the old man's daughter was a good, hard-working girl, while as f… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet the old man's daughter was a good, hard-working girl, while as for the old woman's daughter, she was but an idle slut. Who acts: 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 5

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Yet the old man's daughter was a good, hard-working girl, while as for the old woman's daughter, she was but an idle slut.

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**Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** work, be · **To what, where:** good working girl, idle slut

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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), 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:pg29672:15:5
# text = Yet the old man's daughter was a good, hard-working girl, while as for the old woman's daughter, she was but an idle slut.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	slut	slut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the old man's daughter | a good working girl and woman daughter but a idle slut |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | daughter | a idle slut |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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