Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 139

Then he bade them give his faithful wife rich garments as much as she would, and she stripped off her disguise, and washed her face and grew young again.

Who acts: husband, WIVES, rich, woman · What happens: bade, give, garment, strip off, wash, grow · To what, where: faithful wife, much, disguise, face

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, WIVES, rich, woman), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 bade	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bade	nsubj
3	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bade	ccomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
7	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wife	amod
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 garments	nsubj
10	garments	garment	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 give	parataxis
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 garments	obj
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 would	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 would	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 much	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stripped	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stripped	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stripped	nsubj
19	stripped	strip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bade	conj
20	off	off	ADP	_	22 disguise	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 disguise	nmod:poss
22	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stripped	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 washed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 washed	cc
25	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bade	conj
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 face	nmod:poss
27	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 washed	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 grew	cc
29	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 washed	conj
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 grew	xcomp
31	again	again	ADV	_	29 grew	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bade	past	husband		then		tree rules
2	give	infinitive	WIVES = wife	husband's faithful wife			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
3	garment	present	rich	much			tree rules
4	strip off	past	woman	woman's disguise			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disguise=Patient
5	wash	past	husband not said here	woman's face			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
6	grow	past	husband not said here		again	young property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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