Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 86

Never once did he shave, have his hair cut, wipe his nose, or change his clothes."

Who acts: soldier · What happens: shave, have, wipe, change · To what, where: hair cut, nose, clothes

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 once	advmod
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 shave	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shave	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shave	nsubj
5	shave	shave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 shave	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cut	nmod:poss
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	compound
10	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wipe	punct
12	wipe	wipe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 shave	parataxis
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 nose	nmod:poss
14	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wipe	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 change	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 change	cc
17	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wipe	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 clothes	nmod:poss
19	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	17 change	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shave	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 shave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shave	past · do-support	soldier		once property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	infinitive	soldier not said here	soldier's hair cut		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Patient
3	wipe	infinitive		soldier's nose		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent nose=Source
4	change	infinitive		soldier's clothes		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient

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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