Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 12

Then give me of your straw and tar, that I may patch up my ragged fur again!"--"Take some," said the ox, and the bear fell upon him and began to tear away at the tar.

Who acts: you, I, some, bear · What happens: give up, patch, take, say, fall, begin · To what, where: ragged fur, me, ox, tar · 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, I, some, bear), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 give	advmod
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 give	iobj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 straw	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 straw	nmod:poss
6	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tar	cc
8	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 straw	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 patch	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 patch	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 patch	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 patch	aux
13	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obl
14	up	up	ADP	_	2 give	compound:prt
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 fur	nmod:poss
16	ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fur	amod
17	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
18	again	again	ADV	_	2 give	advmod
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 Take	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Take	punct
23	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 give	parataxis
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 said	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 some	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 some	punct
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Take	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ox	det
29	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fell	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 fell	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bear	det
33	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fell	nsubj
34	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 said	parataxis
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 fell	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 began	cc
38	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 fell	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 tear	mark
40	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 began	xcomp
41	away	away	ADV	_	40 tear	advmod
42	at	at	ADP	_	44 tar	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 tar	det
44	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 tear	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	imperative	you not said here	my ragged fur	me		then; again	of your straw and tar	tree rules
2	patch	may	I						tree rules
3	take	infinitive							vn require-103 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past	some	the ox					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ox=Topic
5	fall in a quote	past	the bear					upon heifer	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
6	begin in a quote	past	the bear not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	tear away in a quote	to-infinitive	the bear not said here			the tar		away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at tar=Trajectory

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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