Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 46
And the wolf asked him, "Daddy, what are you sharpening your knife for?"--"To flay off your skin, that I may make me a warm cap against the winter."--"Oh! don't flay me, daddy dear, and I'll bring you a whole herd of little sheep."--"Well, see that you do it," and he let the wolf go.
Who acts: wolf, bear · What happens: ask, sharpen, flay off, make, not flay, bring · To what, where: bear, Daddy, skin, warm cap, wolf, whole herd · 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 (wolf, bear), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 asked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wolf | det |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Daddy | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Daddy | punct |
| 8 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sharpening | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 sharpening | obj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sharpening | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 sharpening | nsubj |
| 13 | sharpening | sharpen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 Daddy | acl:relcl |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 knife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sharpening | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 knife | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 sharpening | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 sharpening | punct |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 flay | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 flay | punct |
| 21 | To | to | PART | _ | 22 flay | mark |
| 22 | flay | flay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 flay | compound:prt |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 skin | nmod:poss |
| 25 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flay | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 make | punct |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 make | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 make | nsubj |
| 29 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 make | aux |
| 30 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 flay | conj |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 make | obj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 cap | det |
| 33 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 cap | amod |
| 34 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 make | obj |
| 35 | against | against | ADP | _ | 37 winter | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 winter | det |
| 37 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 make | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 flay | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 flay | punct |
| 40 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 46 flay | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 flay | punct |
| 42 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 46 flay | discourse |
| 43 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 42 Oh | punct |
| 44 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 flay | aux |
| 45 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 flay | advmod |
| 46 | flay | flay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | conj |
| 47 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 flay | obj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 daddy | punct |
| 49 | daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 flay | obl |
| 50 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 flay | xcomp |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 bring | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 bring | cc |
| 53 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 55 bring | nsubj |
| 54 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 55 bring | aux |
| 55 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 56 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 55 bring | obj |
| 57 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 59 herd | det |
| 58 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 herd | amod |
| 59 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 bring | obj |
| 60 | of | of | ADP | _ | 62 sheep | case |
| 61 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 sheep | amod |
| 62 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 59 herd | nmod |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 55 bring | punct |
| 64 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 55 bring | punct |
| 65 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 69 see | punct |
| 66 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 69 see | punct |
| 67 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 69 see | discourse |
| 68 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 67 Well | punct |
| 69 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 70 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 72 do | mark |
| 71 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 72 do | nsubj |
| 72 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 69 see | ccomp |
| 73 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 72 do | obj |
| 74 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 72 do | punct |
| 75 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 69 see | punct |
| 76 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 78 let | cc |
| 77 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 78 let | nsubj |
| 78 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | conj |
| 79 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 80 wolf | det |
| 80 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 78 let | obj |
| 81 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 78 let | xcomp |
| 82 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the wolf | bear | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sharpen in a quote | present · progressive | bear | Daddy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flay off not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | your skin | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | may | the wolf = wolf | a warm cap | the wolf = wolf | winter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary cap=Product | ||
| 5 | not flay in a quote | present · do-support | the wolf not said here | the wolf = wolf | daddy obl; dear property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | bring in a quote | future | the wolf = wolf | a whole herd of little sheep | bear | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination herd=Theme | |||
| 7 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 8 | do in a quote | present | bear | knife | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 9 | let | past | bear | the wolf | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | go | infinitive | the wolf not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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