--- title: The old man's daughter very soon did it all, and then she went to th… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The old man's daughter very soon did it all, and then she went to the willow-tree and said, "Bright spring willow, bright spring willow, change thee, transform thee!" Who acts: daughter. 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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 (daughter), 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:pg29672:15:60 # text = The old man's daughter very soon did it all, and then she went to the willow-tree and said, "Bright spring willow, bright spring willow, change thee, transform thee!" 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 8 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 willow willow NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 willow willow NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 willow willow NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 change change VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 34 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 transform transform NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 36 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ! ! PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | daughter | | | the willow tree | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | daughter *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **change** *in a quote* | past · do-support | | thee | | | | transform thee *obl* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/15/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/15/61/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Slipper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/15/)