Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 43
Sometimes, when a husband of this kind has doffed his serpent's skin, his wife seizes it, and throws it into the fire.
Who acts: wife · What happens: doff, seize, throw · To what, where: husband, skin, fire
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 doffed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sometimes | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 doffed | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 husband | det |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 doffed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 kind | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 kind | det |
| 8 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 husband | nmod |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 doffed | aux |
| 10 | doffed | doff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 serpent | nmod:poss |
| 12 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 skin | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 serpent | case |
| 14 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 doffed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seizes | punct |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seizes | nsubj |
| 18 | seizes | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 doffed | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seizes | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 throws | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 throws | cc |
| 22 | throws | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 seizes | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 throws | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 fire | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fire | det |
| 26 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 throws | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 doffed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doff | present · perfect · passive | a husband of this kind | sometimes property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seize | present | husband's wife | skin | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw | present | husband's wife not said here | skin | into the fire result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into fire=Result |
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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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