--- title: Speak and tell me!"--And the ox said, "A three-year-old heifer am I,… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Speak and tell me!"--And the ox said, "A three-year-old heifer am I, made of straw and smeared with tar."--"Oh!" said the bear, "stuffed with straw and trimmed with tar, are you? Who acts: you, ox. 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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 (you, ox), 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:pg29672:14:11 # text = Speak and tell me!"--And the ox said, "A three-year-old heifer am I, made of straw and smeared with tar."--"Oh!" said the bear, "stuffed with straw and trimmed with tar, are you? 1 Speak speak VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 4 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 -- -- PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 And and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 ox ox NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 15 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 heifer heifer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 ccomp _ _ 21 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 smeared smear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 tar tar NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 -- -- PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 38 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ! ! PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 38 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 stuffed stuff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 conj _ _ 44 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 trimmed trim VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 conj _ _ 48 with with ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 tar tar NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 51 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 52 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the ox | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | the ox *not said here* | I | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | participle | | a old heifer *not said here* | | | | of straw | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 6 | **smear** | past | | | | | | with tar | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tar=Theme | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | | the bear | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bear=Topic | | 8 | **stuff** | participle | | | | | | with straw | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with straw=Theme | | 9 | **trim** | participle | | | | | | with tar | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tar=Theme | | 10 | **is a** | present | you *not said here* | 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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/14/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/14/12/) - ↑ back to [The Straw Ox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/14/)