Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 33
When she got there she was astonished, for by the palings stood the ox with the wolf still tugging at it.
Who acts: woman, palings · What happens: get, be, stand, tug · To what, where: ox
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, palings), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stood | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 astonished | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 astonished | cop |
| 7 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 palings | case |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 palings | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palings | det |
| 12 | palings | paling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ox | det |
| 15 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 wolf | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wolf | det |
| 18 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obl |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 tugging | advmod |
| 20 | tugging | tug | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 stood | advcl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tugging | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | woman | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | woman | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | the palings | the ox | with the wolf | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ox=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | tug | gerund | the palings not said here | still | at sight | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at it=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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