--- title: Then her slippers will stick to it, and she, in her hurry to get awa… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then her slippers will stick to it, and she, in her hurry to get away, will never notice that she has left them behind her in church."--So the Tsarevich ordered his courtiers to smear the spot with pitch straightway. Who acts: slippers, Lady, Tsarevich, courtiers. 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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 (slippers, Lady, Tsarevich, courtiers), 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:pg29672:15:70 # text = Then her slippers will stick to it, and she, in her hurry to get away, will never notice that she has left them behind her in church."--So the Tsarevich ordered his courtiers to smear the spot with pitch straightway. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 slippers slipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 stick stick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 hurry hurry NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ _ 17 away away ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 notice notice VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 ccomp _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 behind behind ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 -- -- PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 So so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Tsarevich Tsarevich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 courtiers courtier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 smear smear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 with with ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 pitch pitch NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 straightway straightway NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stick** | future | Lady's slippers | | church | Lady's hurry | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **get away** | to-infinitive | Lady's slippers *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **notice** | future | | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **leave** | present · perfect | Lady | slippers *= slipper* | | church | | behind jester | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme behind she=Location | | 5 | **order** *in a quote* | past | the Tsarevich | Tsarevich's courtiers | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent courtier=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **smear** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Tsarevich's courtiers *not said here* | the spot | | | | with pitch straightway | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent spot=Destination with straightway=Theme | | 7 | **hurry** | | Lady | | | | | | nom hurry «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/15/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/15/71/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Slipper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/15/)