Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 17
Then she quickly caught up her distaff and spinning-board, threw them over her shoulders, and hastened off home, and she saw that the ox had dragged the bear up to the fence, and in she went to the old man. "
Who acts: fool · What happens: catch up, throw, hasten, see, drag up, go · To what, where: distaff, teeth, shoulders, home, ox · 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 (fool), 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 | 4 caught | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 caught | advmod |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 caught | compound:prt |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 distaff | nmod:poss |
| 7 | distaff | distaff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 board | cc |
| 9 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 board | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 spinning | punct |
| 11 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 distaff | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 threw | punct |
| 13 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 threw | obj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 shoulders | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 17 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 threw | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hastened | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hastened | cc |
| 20 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 threw | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 home | case |
| 22 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hastened | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 saw | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 saw | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 saw | nsubj |
| 26 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | conj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 dragged | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ox | det |
| 29 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dragged | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 dragged | aux |
| 31 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 saw | ccomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 bear | det |
| 33 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dragged | obj |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 dragged | compound:prt |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 fence | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 fence | det |
| 37 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dragged | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 went | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 went | cc |
| 40 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 42 went | mark |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 went | nsubj |
| 42 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | conj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 man | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 man | det |
| 45 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 man | amod |
| 46 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 went | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch up | past | fool | fool's distaff and spinning board | then | quickly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distaff=Theme | ||
| 2 | throw | past | fool not said here | teeth = tooth | fool's shoulders | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme over shoulder=Destination | |||
| 3 | hasten | participle | fool not said here | home | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off home=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | see | past | fool | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | drag up | past · perfect · passive | the ox | to the fence | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go | past | fool | to the old man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to man=Initial_Location |
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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