Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 26

Come, tell me!"--"I am a three-year-old heifer, stuffed with straw and trimmed with tar," said the ox.--"Oh! trimmed with tar, are you?

Who acts: you, I, old heifer · What happens: come, tell, be, stuff, trim, say · To what, where: me, old heifer, ox, you · 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 (you, I, old heifer), 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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 heifer	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 heifer	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 heifer	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 heifer	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 heifer	det
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 year	nummod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 three	punct
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 old	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 year	punct
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 heifer	amod
17	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stuffed	punct
19	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 heifer	acl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 straw	case
21	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stuffed	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 trimmed	cc
23	trimmed	trim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 stuffed	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 tar	case
25	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 trimmed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heifer	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 heifer	punct
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ox	det
30	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 said	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 trimmed	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 trimmed	punct
34	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	36 trimmed	discourse
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 Oh	punct
36	trimmed	trim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Come	advcl
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 tar	case
38	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 trimmed	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 you	punct
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 you	cop
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Come	parataxis
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	is a	present	I	a old heifer			tree rules
4	stuff	participle		a old heifer not said here		with straw	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with straw=Theme
5	trim	participle				with tar	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tar=Theme
6	say speech: assert in a quote	past	a old heifer	the ox			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ox=Topic
7	trim	participle	you not said here			with tar	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tar=Theme
8	is a	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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