The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 27

He had to obey, and with groaning and pain cast off one skin after another, and for each skin the maiden threw off one of her shirts, until there lay on the floor seven lindorm skins and six snow-white shirts; the seventh she still had on.

Who acts: sun, pain, maiden, skin · What happens: have, obey, cast off, throw off, lie, have on · To what, where: one skin, one, seven lindorm skins, floor, seventh

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, pain, maiden, skin), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 obey	mark
4	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 groaning	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 groaning	cc
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 groaning	case
8	groaning	groaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pain	cc
10	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 groaning	conj
11	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 pain	acl
12	off	off	ADP	_	14 skin	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 skin	nummod
14	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cast	obl
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 another	case
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 cast	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 threw	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 threw	cc
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 skin	case
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 skin	det
21	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 threw	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 maiden	det
23	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 threw	nsubj
24	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 groaning	parataxis
25	off	off	ADP	_	26 one	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 threw	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 shirts	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 shirts	nmod:poss
29	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 one	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 lay	punct
31	until	until	SCONJ	_	33 lay	mark
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 lay	advmod
33	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 threw	advcl
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 floor	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 floor	det
36	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lay	obl
37	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 skins	nummod
38	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 skins	compound
39	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 lay	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 shirts	cc
41	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 shirts	nummod
42	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 white	obl
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 snow	punct
44	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 shirts	amod
45	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 skins	conj
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 seventh	punct
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 seventh	det
48	seventh	seventh	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 threw	obl
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 had	nsubj
50	still	still	ADV	_	51 had	advmod
51	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 seventh	acl:relcl
52	on	on	ADV	_	51 had	advmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	sun					tree rules
2	obey	to-infinitive	sun not said here					vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	cast off	participle	pain not said here	one skin		after another		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Product
4	throw off	past	the maiden	one of skin's shirts			for each skin; the seventh obl	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
5	lie	past	the maiden not said here	seven lindorm skins and six white shirts	the floor; there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
6	have on	past	skin	the seventh not said here		still		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seventh=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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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