Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 23
Graze, graze away, little ox, while I spin my flax!"
Who acts: you, I · What happens: graze, graze away, spin · To what, where: little ox, flax
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 (you, I), 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 | Graze | graze | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 graze | punct |
| 3 | graze | graze | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Graze | conj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 graze | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ox | punct |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ox | amod |
| 7 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Graze | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spin | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 spin | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 spin | nsubj |
| 11 | spin | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Graze | advcl |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 flax | nmod:poss |
| 13 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spin | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Graze | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Graze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | graze | imperative | you not said here | little ox | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | graze away | infinitive | you not said here | away property | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | spin | present | I | 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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