Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 72

Then he threw off his last skin also, and it flew about in the air like a gossamer, whereupon she seized hold of it and threw it into the fire that was burning on the hearth till it was all consumed, and he stood before her no longer a serpent, but a simple Tsarevich.

Who acts: Hail, serpent, bride, fire · What happens: throw off, fly, seize, throw, burn, consume · To what, where: last skin, hold, serpent, fire, hearth

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, serpent, bride, fire), 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 threw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 threw	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 skin	nmod:poss
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 skin	amod
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obj
8	also	also	ADV	_	3 threw	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 flew	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 flew	nsubj
12	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
13	about	about	ADP	_	16 air	case
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 air	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 air	det
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flew	obl
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 gossamer	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 gossamer	det
19	gossamer	gossamer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 air	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seized	punct
21	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	23 seized	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seized	nsubj
23	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
24	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seized	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hold	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 threw	cc
28	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 seized	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 threw	obj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 fire	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fire	det
32	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 threw	obl
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 burning	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 burning	aux
35	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 fire	acl:relcl
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 hearth	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 hearth	det
38	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 burning	obl
39	till	till	SCONJ	_	43 consumed	mark
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 consumed	nsubj:pass
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 consumed	aux:pass
42	all	all	ADV	_	43 consumed	advmod
43	consumed	consume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 threw	advcl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 stood	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 stood	cc
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 stood	nsubj
47	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
48	before	before	ADP	_	49 her	case
49	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 stood	obl
50	no	no	ADV	_	51 longer	advmod
51	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	47 stood	advmod
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 serpent	det
53	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 longer	nsubj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 Tsarevich	punct
55	but	but	CCONJ	_	58 Tsarevich	cc
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 Tsarevich	det
57	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 Tsarevich	amod
58	Tsarevich	Tsarevich	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw off	past	Hail	Hail's last skin		then	a simple Tsarevich obl	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
2	fly	past	serpent				about the air like a gossamer	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about air=Location
3	seize	past	bride	hold of serpent			whereupon property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
4	throw	past	bride not said here	serpent			into the fire result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into fire=Result
5	burn	past · progressive	the fire		the hearth			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hearth=Location
6	consume	past · passive		serpent			all property	vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
7	stand	past	Hail			before bride	long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location
8	hold			serpent				nom hold «act transitive»: of=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: «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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