Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 21

Next morning, between dark and dawn, the old woman took her distaff and drove the ox into the steppe to graze.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: take, drive, graze · To what, where: distaff, ox, steppe

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), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct
4	between	between	ADP	_	5 dark	case
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dawn	cc
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dark	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 morning	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 distaff	nmod:poss
14	distaff	distaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 drove	cc
16	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ox	det
18	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drove	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 steppe	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 steppe	det
21	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drove	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 graze	mark
23	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 drove	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	the old woman	woman's distaff		morning	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distaff=Theme
2	drive	past	the old woman not said here	the ox	the steppe		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ox=Theme into steppe=Trajectory
3	graze	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here				vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/14/21/