Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Old Dog, sentence 3

So he went and lay outside the fence, and a wolf came up to him and said, "Doggy, why so down in the mouth?"--"While I was young," said the dog, "they made much of me; but now that I am old they beat me."

Who acts: dog, wolf, doors · What happens: go, lay, come up, say, be, make · To what, where: fence, dog, Doggy, much · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Old Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, wolf, doors), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lay	cc
5	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	conj
6	outside	outside	ADP	_	8 fence	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fence	det
8	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wolf	det
12	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
14	up	up	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Doggy	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Doggy	punct
21	Doggy	doggy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 mouth	punct
23	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	28 mouth	advmod
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 down	advmod
25	down	down	ADV	_	28 mouth	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 mouth	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 mouth	det
28	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Doggy	appos
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 mouth	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Doggy	punct
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 young	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 young	punct
33	While	while	SCONJ	_	36 young	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 young	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 young	cop
36	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 said	ccomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 young	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 dog	det
41	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 said	nsubj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 made	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 made	punct
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 made	nsubj
45	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 said	ccomp
46	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 made	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 me	case
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 much	obl
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 old	punct
50	but	but	CCONJ	_	55 old	cc
51	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	55 old	advmod
52	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 old	mark
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 old	nsubj
54	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 old	cop
55	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	obl
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 beat	nsubj
57	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 old	acl:relcl
58	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 beat	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	dog						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay	infinitive	dog not said here			the fence			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent outside fence=Destination
3	come up	past	a wolf		dog				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	past	dog not said here	Doggy					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent doggy=Topic
5	is in a quote	past	dog					young property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past	the dog						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	make in a quote	past	doors = door	much					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset much=Product
8	is in a quote	present	the dog = dog				now	old property	tree rules
9	beat in a quote	past	doors = door	the dog = dog					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme

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.

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