Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 35

On the third day the old woman again drove her ox into the pastures to graze, and sat down by a mound and dozed off.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: drive, graze, sit down, doze off · To what, where: ox, pastures

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 (old woman), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drove	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drove	nsubj
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 woman	advmod
9	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ox	nmod:poss
11	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drove	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 pastures	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pastures	det
14	pastures	pasture	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 drove	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 graze	mark
16	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 pastures	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sat	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sat	cc
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 drove	parataxis
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 sat	compound:prt
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 mound	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 mound	det
23	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sat	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dozed	cc
25	dozed	doze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sat	conj
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 dozed	compound:prt
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	the old woman	woman's ox	the pastures	day		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ox=Theme into pasture=Trajectory
2	graze	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here					vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit down	past					by a mound	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by mound=Location
4	doze off	past						vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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