Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 43

And the bear said to him, "Tell me, daddy, what are you sharpening your knife for?"--"To flay your skin off, that I may make a leather jacket for myself and a pelisse for my old wife."--"Oh! don't flay me, daddy dear!

Who acts: bear, hare · What happens: say, tell, sharpen, flay off, make, not flay · To what, where: hare, daddy, bear, skin, leather jacket · 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 (bear, hare), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bear	det
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Tell	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Tell	punct
9	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 Tell	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 daddy	punct
12	daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Tell	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sharpening	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 sharpening	obj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sharpening	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 sharpening	nsubj
17	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 daddy	conj
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 knife	nmod:poss
19	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sharpening	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	17 sharpening	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 Tell	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Tell	punct
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 flay	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 flay	punct
25	To	to	PART	_	26 flay	mark
26	flay	flay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 skin	nmod:poss
28	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flay	obj
29	off	off	ADP	_	26 flay	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 make	punct
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 make	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 make	nsubj
33	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 make	aux
34	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 flay	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 jacket	det
36	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 jacket	compound
37	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 make	obj
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 myself	case
39	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 jacket	nmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 pelisse	cc
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 pelisse	det
42	pelisse	pelisse	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 jacket	conj
43	for	for	ADP	_	46 wife	case
44	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 wife	nmod:poss
45	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 wife	amod
46	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 make	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 flay	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 flay	punct
49	--	--	PUNCT	_	55 flay	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	55 flay	punct
51	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	55 flay	discourse
52	!	!	PUNCT	_	51 Oh	punct
53	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 flay	aux
54	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 flay	advmod
55	flay	flay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	conj
56	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 flay	obj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 daddy	punct
58	daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 flay	obl
59	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 flay	xcomp
60	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	the bear		hare		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		daddy	the bear = bear		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient daddy=Topic
3	sharpen in a quote	present · progressive	hare	daddy			tree rules
4	flay off in a quote	to-infinitive		your skin			tree rules
5	make in a quote	may	the bear = bear	a leather jacket and a pelisse		for the bear = bear; for my old wife	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent jacket=Material for wife=Beneficiary
6	not flay in a quote	present · do-support	the bear not said here	the bear = bear		daddy obl; dear property	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.

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