Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 11

Speak and tell me!"--And the ox said, "A three-year-old heifer am I, made of straw and smeared with tar."--"Oh!" said the bear, "stuffed with straw and trimmed with tar, are you?

Who acts: you, ox · What happens: speak, tell, say, be, make, smear · To what, where: me, I, old heifer, bear, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Straw Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ox), 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	Speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 tell	cc
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Speak	conj
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
8	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ox	det
10	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Speak	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 heifer	punct
14	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 heifer	det
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 year	nummod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 three	punct
17	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 old	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 year	punct
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 heifer	amod
20	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 I	cop
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 heifer	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
24	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 heifer	acl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 straw	case
26	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 smeared	cc
28	smeared	smear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 made	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 tar	case
30	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 smeared	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 heifer	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 heifer	punct
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 said	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 said	punct
35	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	38 said	discourse
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	35 Oh	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 Oh	punct
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 bear	det
40	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 said	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 stuffed	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 stuffed	punct
43	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 said	conj
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 straw	case
45	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 stuffed	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 trimmed	cc
47	trimmed	trim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 stuffed	conj
48	with	with	ADP	_	49 tar	case
49	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 trimmed	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 you	punct
51	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 you	cop
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Speak	conj
53	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the ox				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	the ox not said here	I			tree rules
5	make	participle		a old heifer not said here		of straw	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	smear	past				with tar	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tar=Theme
7	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the bear			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bear=Topic
8	stuff	participle				with straw	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with straw=Theme
9	trim	participle				with tar	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tar=Theme
10	is a	present	you not said here	you			tree rules

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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