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title: Then he threw off his last skin also, and it flew about in the air l… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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,
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 72

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29672:20:72
# text = 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.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	gossamer	gossamer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	hearth	hearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
42	all	all	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
48	before	before	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obl	_	_
50	no	no	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	47	advmod	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	Tsarevich	Tsarevich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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.

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**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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