--- title: Then give me of your straw and tar, that I may patch up my ragged fu… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then give me of your straw and tar, that I may patch up my ragged fur again!"--"Take some," said the ox, and the bear fell upon him and began to tear away at the tar. Who acts: you, I, some, bear. 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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, I, some, bear), 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:pg29672:14:12 # text = Then give me of your straw and tar, that I may patch up my ragged fur again!"--"Take some," said the ox, and the bear fell upon him and began to tear away at the tar. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 iobj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 tar tar NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 ragged ragged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 18 again again ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 -- -- PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 24 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 27 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 27 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ox ox NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 35 upon upon ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 tear tear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 away away ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 tar tar NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give up** | imperative | you *not said here* | my ragged fur | me | | then; again | of your straw and tar | tree rules | | 2 | **patch** | may | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn require-103 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | some | the ox | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ox=Topic | | 5 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | the bear | | | | | upon heifer | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | | 6 | **begin** *in a quote* | past | the bear *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **tear away** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the bear *not said here* | | | the tar | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at tar=Trajectory | 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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/14/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/14/13/) - ↑ back to [The Straw Ox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/14/)