--- title: Then she said to the old man's daughter, "As for thee, thou slut! th… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then she said to the old man's daughter, "As for thee, thou slut! though thou _hast_ sewn the shirts and bleached them, thou art but a dirty under-wench!" Who acts: Lady, thou. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/15/57/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Golden Slipper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/15/) / 57 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 57 Then she said to the old man's daughter, "As for thee, thou slut! though thou \_hast\_ sewn the shirts and bleached them, thou art but a dirty under-wench!" **Who acts:** Lady, thou · **What happens:** say, slut, have, sew, bleach · **To what, where:** daughter, shirts · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Lady, thou), 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:pg29672:15:57 # text = Then she said to the old man's daughter, "As for thee, thou slut! though thou _hast_ sewn the shirts and bleached them, thou art but a dirty under-wench!" 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 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 9 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 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 As as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 14 case _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nsubj _ _ 17 slut slut NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 19 though though ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nsubj _ _ 21 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 hast have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 22 punct _ _ 24 sewn sew VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 shirts shirt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 bleached bleach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 nsubj _ _ 32 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ _ 36 under under ADP IN _ 38 case _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 wench wench NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ! ! PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Lady | | the old man's daughter | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient | | 2 | **slut** *in a quote* | | thou | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | thou | | | | | though *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sew** *in a quote* | participle | | the shirts | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Product | | 5 | **bleach** *in a quote* | past | | shirts *= shirt* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/15/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/15/58/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Slipper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/15/)