Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 5

Look now, husband," cried she, "make me a straw ox, and smear it all over with tar."--"Why, you foolish woman!" said he, "what's the good of an ox of that sort?"--"Never mind," said she, "you just make it.

Who acts: you, husband, foolish woman, woman · What happens: look, cry, make, smear, woman, say · To what, where: woman, straw ox, me, ox · 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, husband, foolish woman, 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Look	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 husband	punct
4	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 husband	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 husband	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	parataxis
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
11	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 make	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 ox	det
14	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ox	compound
15	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 smear	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 smear	cc
18	smear	smear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 smear	obj
20	all	all	ADV	_	21 over	advmod
21	over	over	ADV	_	18 smear	advmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 tar	case
23	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 smear	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Why	punct
28	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	35 said	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 woman	punct
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 woman	nsubj
31	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 woman	amod
32	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 said	nsubj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 woman	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 woman	punct
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 said	ccomp
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 said	nsubj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 good	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 good	punct
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 good	obl
40	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 good	cop
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 good	det
42	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 said	ccomp
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 ox	case
44	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 ox	det
45	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 good	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 sort	case
47	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 sort	det
48	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 ox	nmod
49	?	?	PUNCT	_	42 good	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 good	punct
51	--	--	PUNCT	_	54 mind	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	54 mind	punct
53	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	54 mind	advmod
54	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 said	ccomp
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 mind	punct
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	54 mind	punct
57	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	advcl
58	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 said	nsubj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 make	punct
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	63 make	punct
61	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	63 make	nsubj
62	just	just	ADV	_	63 make	advmod
63	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 said	ccomp
64	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 make	obj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here			now		tree rules
2	cry speech: express in a quote	past	husband	woman				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
3	make	infinitive	you not said here	a straw ox	me			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary ox=Product
4	smear	infinitive	you not said here	ox			with tar; over property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with tar=Theme
5	woman		you					tree rules
6	say speech: assert in a quote	past	foolish woman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	is	present					of a ox of that sort; good property	tree rules
8	not mind	infinitive						vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	say speech: assert in a quote	past	woman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	make	present	you	ox				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.

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