Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 83

She vowed she would never tell; but for all her promises, she nevertheless told them at last how her husband had lost his twenty serpent skins.

Who acts: mother · What happens: vow, not tell, tell, lose, promise · To what, where: skins, last, husband · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mother), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 vowed	nsubj
2	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 tell	advmod
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 vowed	ccomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 promises	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 promises	det:predet
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 promises	nmod:poss
12	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 told	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 promises	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj
15	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	16 told	advmod
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 vowed	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 told	obl
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 lost	advmod
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 husband	nmod:poss
22	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lost	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lost	aux
24	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 told	ccomp
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 skins	nmod:poss
26	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 skins	nummod
27	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 skins	compound
28	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lost	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 vowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	vow	past	mother					tree rules
2	not tell speech: assert	would	mother					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	mother		skins = skin	last	for mother's promises; nevertheless property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	lose	past · perfect · passive		mother's husband				tree rules
5	promise		mother					nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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