Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 8

The night passed away, and at early dawn the old woman took her distaff, and drove the straw ox out into the steppe to graze, and she herself sat down behind a hillock, and began spinning her flax, and cried, "Graze away, little ox, while I spin my flax!

Who acts: night, old woman, woman, I · What happens: pass away, take, drive, graze, sit down, begin · To what, where: distaff, straw ox, steppe, hillock, flax, little 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 (night, old woman, woman, I), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 passed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 dawn	case
8	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dawn	amod
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 distaff	nmod:poss
15	distaff	distaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 drove	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 drove	cc
18	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ox	det
20	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ox	compound
21	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drove	obj
22	out	out	ADV	_	18 drove	advmod
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 steppe	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 steppe	det
25	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drove	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 graze	mark
27	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 drove	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sat	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sat	cc
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sat	nsubj
31	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 she	conj
32	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
33	down	down	ADP	_	32 sat	compound:prt
34	behind	behind	ADP	_	36 hillock	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 hillock	det
36	hillock	hillock	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sat	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 began	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 began	cc
39	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	parataxis
40	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 began	xcomp
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 flax	nmod:poss
42	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 spinning	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 cried	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 cried	cc
45	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 began	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 Graze	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 Graze	punct
48	Graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 cried	ccomp
49	away	away	ADV	_	48 Graze	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 ox	punct
51	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 ox	amod
52	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 Graze	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 spin	punct
54	while	while	SCONJ	_	56 spin	mark
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 spin	nsubj
56	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 Graze	conj
57	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 flax	nmod:poss
58	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 spin	obj
59	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass away	past	the night				away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	take	past	the old woman	woman's distaff		dawn		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distaff=Theme
3	drive	past	the night not said here	the straw ox	the steppe		out property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ox=Theme into steppe=Trajectory
4	graze	to-infinitive	the night not said here					vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sit down	past	woman		a hillock			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind hillock=Location
6	begin	past						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	spin	gerund		woman's flax				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flax=Theme
8	cry speech: express	past						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	graze away in a quote	infinitive		little ox			away property	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	spin in a quote	present	I	my flax				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flax=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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