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title: He had to obey, and with groaning and pain cast off one skin after a… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Pink F
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 27

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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.

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**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

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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.

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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:pg5615:33:27
# text = 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.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	groaning	groaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	shirts	shirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
33	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
38	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
41	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
42	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	shirts	shirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	seventh	seventh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	still	still	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
52	on	on	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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:** «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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