--- title: And while she spun, her head drooped down and she began to doze, and… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And while she spun, her head drooped down and she began to doze, and while she was dozing, from behind the dark wood and from the back of the huge pines a bear came rushing out upon the ox and said, "Who are you? Who acts: woman, head, bear, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, head, bear, you), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:14:10 # text = And while she spun, her head drooped down and she began to doze, and while she was dozing, from behind the dark wood and from the back of the huge pines a bear came rushing out upon the ox and said, "Who are you? 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 while while SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 spun spin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 drooped droop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 down down ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 doze doze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 dozing doze VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 behind behind ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 pines pine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 38 rushing rush VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 xcomp _ _ 39 out out ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 upon upon ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 ox ox NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 " " PUNCT `` _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 44 parataxis _ _ 48 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 49 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spin** | past | woman | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **droop down** | past | woman's head | | | | | down *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **begin** | past | head | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **doze** | to-infinitive | head *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **doze** | past · progressive | head | | | the dark wood and the back of the huge pines | | | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **come** | past | a bear | the huge pines *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **rush out** | gerund | a bear *not said here* | | | the ox | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ox=Trajectory | | 8 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | a bear *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/14/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/14/11/) - ↑ back to [The Straw Ox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/14/)