Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 39

The old woman told her old man, and he took and cast the fox into the cellar in the same way.

Who acts: old woman, heifer · What happens: tell, take, cast · To what, where: old man, fox, cellar · 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 (old woman, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	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	7 man	nmod:poss
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cast	cc
13	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fox	det
15	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cast	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 cellar	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cellar	det
18	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cast	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 way	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 way	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 way	amod
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cast	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the old woman		woman's old man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
2	take	past	heifer					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	cast	past	heifer not said here	the fox		the cellar	in the same way	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent fox=Material into cellar=Product

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/14/39/