Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 7

He set to work and made the ox of straw, and smeared it all over with tar.

Who acts: husband · What happens: set, work, make, smear · To what, where: ox

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 (husband), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 work	mark
4	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 set	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 made	cc
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ox	det
8	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 straw	case
10	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ox	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 smeared	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 smeared	cc
13	smeared	smear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 smeared	obj
15	all	all	ADV	_	16 over	advmod
16	over	over	ADV	_	13 smeared	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 tar	case
18	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 smeared	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	past	husband			tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	husband not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	past	husband not said here	the ox of straw		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ox=Product
4	smear	past	husband 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

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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