Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 59
As for the straw-stuffed ox, it stood in the sun till it fell to pieces.
Who acts: fox · What happens: stuff, stand, fall · To what, where: sun
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 (fox), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 7 ox | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ox | det |
| 4 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stuffed | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 straw | punct |
| 6 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ox | amod |
| 7 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ox | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sun | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sun | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 fell | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stood | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 pieces | case |
| 18 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fell | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stuff | participle | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | stand | past | fox | the sun | as the stuffed ox | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location | |||
| 3 | fall | past | fox | to pieces | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to piece=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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