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