Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 71
Nineteen times did he cast off one of his serpent's skins, and nineteen times did she cast off one of her suits of clothes, till at last she had only her every-day suit left, and he had only his human skin left.
Who acts: Hail, bride · What happens: cast off, have, leave · To what, where: one, day suit, human skin
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 (Hail, bride), 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 | Nineteen | nineteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cast | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cast | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cast | nsubj |
| 5 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 cast | compound:prt |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 cast | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 skins | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 serpent | nmod:poss |
| 10 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 skins | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 serpent | case |
| 12 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cast | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cast | cc |
| 15 | nineteen | nineteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 times | nummod |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cast | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 cast | aux |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cast | nsubj |
| 19 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cast | conj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 cast | compound:prt |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 cast | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 suits | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 suits | nmod:poss |
| 24 | suits | suit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 clothes | case |
| 26 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 24 suits | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 last | punct |
| 28 | till | till | ADP | _ | 30 last | case |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 last | case |
| 30 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cast | conj |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 had | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 last | ccomp |
| 33 | only | only | ADV | _ | 38 suit | advmod |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 suit | nmod:poss |
| 35 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 day | det |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 every | punct |
| 37 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 suit | compound |
| 38 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 had | obj |
| 39 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 suit | acl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 had | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 had | cc |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 had | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 had | conj |
| 44 | only | only | ADV | _ | 47 skin | advmod |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 skin | nmod:poss |
| 46 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 skin | amod |
| 47 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 had | obj |
| 48 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 skin | acl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast off | past · do-support | Hail | one of Hail's serpent's skins | time | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Product | |||
| 2 | cast off | past · do-support | bride | one of bride's suits of clothes | time | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Product | |||
| 3 | have | past | bride | bride's day suit | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suit=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave | participle | bride's day suit not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have | past | Hail | Hail's human skin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | ||||
| 6 | leave | participle | Hail's human skin not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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