Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 18
Dad, dad!" she cried, "look, look! the ox has brought us a bear.
Who acts: Dad · What happens: cry, look, bring · To what, where: ox
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 (Dad), 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 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dad | punct |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dad | appos |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dad | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dad | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 look | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 look | punct |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 look | conj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ox | det |
| 15 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 brought | aux |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 look | parataxis |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bear | det |
| 20 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Dad | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | Dad not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | Dad not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | bring | present · perfect · passive | the ox | 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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