Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 95

The Little-Russians hold that if a vampire's hands have grown numb from remaining long crossed in the grave, he makes use of his teeth, which are like steel.

Who acts: Little Russians, hands, name, teeth · What happens: hold, grow, remain, cross, make, be · To what, where: grave, use, teeth

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Russians, hands, name, teeth), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Russians	det
2	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Russians	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Little	punct
4	Russians	Russian	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 hold	nsubj
5	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 makes	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 grown	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 vampire	det
9	vampire	vampire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hands	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 vampire	case
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grown	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 grown	aux
13	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 makes	advcl
14	numb	numb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grown	xcomp
15	from	from	SCONJ	_	16 remaining	mark
16	remaining	remain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 numb	advcl
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 crossed	advmod
18	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 remaining	advcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 grave	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 grave	det
21	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 crossed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grown	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 makes	nsubj
24	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hold	ccomp
25	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 makes	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 teeth	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 teeth	nmod:poss
28	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 use	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 steel	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 steel	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 steel	cop
32	like	like	ADP	_	33 steel	case
33	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 teeth	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	present	the Little Russians				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	grow a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	a vampire's hands			numb property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	remain	gerund	a vampire's hands not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cross	participle	a vampire's hands not said here		the grave	long property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	present	name	use of name's teeth and steel			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product
6	is	present	name's teeth and steel			like steel	tree rules
7	use			name's teeth and steel			nom use «act transitive»: of=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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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