Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 15
Then the old woman awoke, and there was no ox to be seen. "
Who acts: old woman, ox · What happens: awake, be, see
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 (old woman, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 awoke | nsubj |
| 5 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 was | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awoke | ccomp |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 ox | det |
| 11 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 seen | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seen | aux:pass |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ox | acl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awoke | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the old woman | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | no ox | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive · passive | no ox not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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