Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 22

She herself sat down by a mound, began spinning, and said, "Graze, graze away, little ox, while I spin my flax!

Who acts: woman · What happens: sit down, begin, spin, say, graze, graze away · To what, where: little ox, flax · 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 (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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
2	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 mound	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mound	det
7	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
10	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 began	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Graze	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Graze	punct
16	Graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 graze	punct
18	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 Graze	conj
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 graze	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ox	punct
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ox	amod
22	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Graze	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 spin	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 spin	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 spin	nsubj
26	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Graze	conj
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 flax	nmod:poss
28	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spin	obj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	woman		by a mound	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by mound=Location
2	begin	past	woman not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	spin	gerund	woman not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: express	past	woman not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	graze in a quote	infinitive		little ox		vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	graze away in a quote	infinitive			away property	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	spin in a quote	present	woman	my flax		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flax=Theme

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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