Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 31
Once a serpent, always a serpent!"
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Serpent-wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 serpent | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 serpent | det |
| 3 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 serpent | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 serpent | punct |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 serpent | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 serpent | det |
| 7 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 serpent | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 serpent | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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