--- title: Then she quickly caught up her distaff and spinning-board, threw the… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then she quickly caught up her distaff and spinning-board, threw them over her shoulders, and hastened off home, and she saw that the ox had dragged the bear up to the fence, and in she went to the old man. " Who acts: fool. 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" **Who acts:** fool · **What happens:** catch up, throw, hasten, see, drag up, go · **To what, where:** distaff, teeth, shoulders, home, 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 (fool), 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:pg29672:14:17 # text = Then she quickly caught up her distaff and spinning-board, threw them over her shoulders, and hastened off home, and she saw that the ox had dragged the bear up to the fence, and in she went to the old man. " 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 distaff distaff NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 spinning spinning NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 over over ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 hastened hasten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 21 off off ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ox ox NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 dragged drag VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 ccomp _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 up up ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 in in SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch up** | past | fool | fool's distaff and spinning board | | | then | quickly *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distaff=Theme | | 2 | **throw** | past | fool *not said here* | teeth *= tooth* | | fool's shoulders | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme over shoulder=Destination | | 3 | **hasten** | participle | fool *not said here* | | | home | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off home=Trajectory | | 4 | **see** | past | fool | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **drag up** | past · perfect · passive | | the ox | | | | to the fence | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | past | fool | | | | | to the old man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to man=Initial\_Location | 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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/14/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/14/18/) - ↑ back to [The Straw Ox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/14/)