Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 25

And, lo! from behind the dark wood, from the back of the huge pines, a grey wolf came rushing out upon the ox and said, "Who are you?

Who acts: dark wood, you · What happens: come, rush out, say, be · To what, where: ox · 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 (dark wood, you), 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	_	22 came	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wood	punct
3	lo	lo	INTJ	_	9 wood	discourse
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 lo	punct
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 wood	case
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 wood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wood	det
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wood	amod
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 back	punct
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 back	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 back	det
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wood	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 pines	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pines	det
16	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pines	amod
17	pines	pine	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 back	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wolf	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 wolf	det
20	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wolf	amod
21	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wood	conj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 came	xcomp
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 rushing	compound:prt
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 ox	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ox	det
27	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rushing	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 came	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Who	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 Who	punct
32	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 said	parataxis
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 Who	cop
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 Who	nsubj
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	come	past	the dark wood and the back of the huge pines and a grey wolf		tree rules
2	rush out	gerund	the dark wood and the back of the huge pines and a grey wolf not said here	the ox	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ox=Trajectory
3	say speech: ask	past	the dark wood and the back of the huge pines and a grey wolf not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a in a quote	present	you		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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