Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 37

Who are you?" it asked the ox.--"I'm a three-year-old heifer, stuffed with straw and daubed with tar."--"Then give me some of your tar to smear my sides with, when those dogs and sons of dogs tear my hide!"--"Take some," said the ox.

Who acts: you, I, dogs · What happens: be, ask, stuff, daub, give, smear · To what, where: ox, old heifer, some, me, sides, hide · 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, dogs), 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 asked	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Who	cop
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Who	nsubj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Who	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Who	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 asked	nsubj
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 said	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ox	det
9	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asked	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 asked	punct
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 heifer	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 heifer	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 heifer	nsubj
14	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 heifer	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 heifer	det
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 year	nummod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 three	punct
18	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 old	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 year	punct
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 heifer	amod
21	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asked	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stuffed	punct
23	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 heifer	acl
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 straw	case
25	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stuffed	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 daubed	cc
27	daubed	daub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 stuffed	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 tar	case
29	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 daubed	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 heifer	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 heifer	punct
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 give	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 give	punct
34	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 give	advmod
35	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 asked	ccomp
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 give	iobj
37	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 give	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 tar	case
39	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 tar	nmod:poss
40	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 some	nmod
41	to	to	PART	_	42 smear	mark
42	smear	smear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 give	advcl
43	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 sides	nmod:poss
44	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 smear	obj
45	with	with	ADP	_	42 smear	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 tear	punct
47	when	when	SCONJ	_	54 tear	mark
48	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	49 dogs	det
49	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 tear	nsubj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 sons	cc
51	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 dogs	conj
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 dogs	case
53	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 sons	nmod
54	tear	tear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 give	conj
55	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 hide	nmod:poss
56	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 tear	obj
57	!	!	PUNCT	_	35 give	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 give	punct
59	--	--	PUNCT	_	61 Take	punct
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	61 Take	punct
61	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 asked	ccomp
62	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	61 Take	obj
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 Take	punct
64	"	"	PUNCT	_	61 Take	punct
65	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 ox	det
67	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 said	obj
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	65 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	you					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	past		the ox				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent ox=Recipient clause=Topic
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	daub	participle					with tar	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tar=Theme
6	give	infinitive		some	me	then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient some=Theme
7	smear	to-infinitive		my sides				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent side=Theme
8	tear	present	that dogs and sons of dogs	my hide				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hide=Theme
9	take	infinitive		some				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
10	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the ox				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ox=Topic

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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