Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 38
Then the fox fastened her teeth in him and couldn't draw them out again.
Who acts: fox · What happens: fasten, not draw out · To what, where: teeth
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 (fox), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fastened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fastened | nsubj |
| 4 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fastened | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fastened | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 draw | cc |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 draw | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 draw | advmod |
| 12 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fastened | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 draw | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 draw | compound:prt |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 draw | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | past | the fox | woman's teeth | then | in heifer | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||
| 2 | not draw out | could | the fox not said here | teeth = tooth | again | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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