Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 50

Why do you do that?" asked puss, and he replied, "Little hares have nice little soft warm skins, which will make me gloves and mittens against the winter!"--"Oh! daddy dear! don't flay me, and I'll bring you kale and good cauliflower, if only you let me go!"

Who acts: you, bear, Little hares, nice little soft warm skins, I, me · What happens: do, ask, reply, have, make, not flay · To what, where: that, puss, gloves, me, kale, you · 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, bear, Little hares, nice little soft warm skins), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 do	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 asked	ccomp
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 do	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	puss	puss	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 replied	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 replied	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 replied	nsubj
13	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
16	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hares	amod
17	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 replied	conj
19	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 skins	amod
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 skins	amod
21	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 skins	amod
22	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 skins	amod
23	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 flay	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 make	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 make	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 make	aux
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 skins	acl:relcl
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 make	obj
29	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 make	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 mittens	cc
31	mittens	mitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 gloves	conj
32	against	against	ADP	_	34 winter	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 winter	det
34	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	obl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 make	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 make	punct
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 daddy	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 daddy	punct
39	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	41 daddy	discourse
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 Oh	punct
41	daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 skins	appos
42	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 daddy	amod
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 skins	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	18 have	ccomp
47	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 flay	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 bring	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 bring	cc
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 bring	nsubj
51	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 bring	aux
52	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 asked	ccomp
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 bring	obj
54	kale	kale	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 bring	obj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 cauliflower	cc
56	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 cauliflower	amod
57	cauliflower	cauliflower	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 kale	conj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 let	punct
59	if	if	SCONJ	_	62 let	mark
60	only	only	ADV	_	62 let	advmod
61	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	62 let	nsubj
62	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 bring	conj
63	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	62 let	obj
64	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 let	xcomp
65	!	!	PUNCT	_	64 go	punct
66	"	"	PUNCT	_	52 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	you	that			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	past		puss			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent puss=Recipient clause=Topic
3	reply speech: assert in a quote	past	bear				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	present	Little hares				tree rules
5	make	future	nice little soft warm skins	gloves and mittens	me	winter	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary glove=Product
6	not flay	present · do-support	nice little soft warm skins	me			tree rules
7	bring	future	I	kale and good cauliflower	you		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination kale=Theme
8	let a condition, not said to happen	present	you	me			tree rules
9	go	infinitive	me 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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