Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 24
And while she spun, her head drooped down and she dozed.
Who acts: woman, head · What happens: spin, droop down, doze
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, head), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drooped | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 spun | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spun | nsubj |
| 4 | spun | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 drooped | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spun | punct |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drooped | nsubj |
| 8 | drooped | droop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 drooped | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dozed | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dozed | nsubj |
| 12 | dozed | doze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 drooped | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 drooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | past | woman | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | droop down | past | woman's head | down property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | doze | past | woman | vn snooze-40.4 «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.
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