--- title: Then she said to her own daughter, "Go, my dear little daughter, tid… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then she said to her own daughter, "Go, my dear little daughter, tidy thyself up a bit, and wash thy little feet!"--But the old man's daughter she drove behind the stove, and the poor thing was neither washed nor dressed. " Who acts: woman, daughter. 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" **Who acts:** woman, daughter · **What happens:** say, go, wash, drive, dress · **To what, where:** own daughter, dear little daughter, little feet, stove, poor thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Nobles and Princes\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, 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:pg29672:16:5 # text = Then she said to her own daughter, "Go, my dear little daughter, tidy thyself up a bit, and wash thy little feet!"--But the old man's daughter she drove behind the stove, and the poor thing was neither washed nor dressed. " 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 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 13 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 tidy tidy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 18 thyself thyself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch 17 nsubj _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 25 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ! ! PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 -- -- PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 But but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 drove drive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 39 behind behind ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 stove stove NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj:pass _ _ 47 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux:pass _ _ 48 neither neither ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 washed wash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 50 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 51 cc _ _ 51 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 49 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 51 punct _ _ 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | woman | | woman's own daughter | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | my dear little daughter | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **wash** *in a quote* | infinitive | | thy little feet | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | | 4 | **drive** | past | the old man's daughter | | | the stove | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **wash** | past · passive | | the poor thing | | | | neither *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **dress** | participle | | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/16/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/16/6/) - ↑ back to [Nobles and Princes\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/16/)