Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 56

Close on his heels came the fox, driving before him geese and hens and all manner of fowls; and last of all came the hare, bringing cabbage and kale and all manner of good food.

Who acts: you, heels, last · What happens: close, come, drive, bring · To what, where: geese, cabbage

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, heels, last), 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	Close	close	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 heels	nmod:poss
4	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Close	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fox	det
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 driving	punct
9	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 came	advcl
10	before	before	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 driving	obl
12	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 driving	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hens	cc
14	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 geese	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 manner	cc
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 manner	det
17	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 geese	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 fowls	case
19	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 manner	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 came	cc
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 came	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 all	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 last	nmod
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Close	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hare	det
27	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bringing	punct
29	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 came	advcl
30	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bringing	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 kale	cc
32	kale	kale	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cabbage	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 manner	cc
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 manner	det
35	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cabbage	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 food	case
37	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 food	amod
38	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 manner	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Close	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	close	imperative	you not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	come	past	bear's heels			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drive	gerund	bear's heels not said here	geese and hens and all manner of fowls	before bear	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent goose=Theme before he=Destination
4	come	past	last of all			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bring	gerund	last of all not said here	cabbage and kale and all manner of good food		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cabbage=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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