Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 161
So long as she only claws about thy body, touch her not; but as soon as she begins to claw at thine eyes, seize her by the legs."
Who acts: you, ZHAR · What happens: not touch, begin, seize · To what, where: ZHAR, claw, eyes
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ZHAR), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 touch | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 claws | case |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 claws | nsubj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 claws | advmod |
| 6 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 touch | obl |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 body | case |
| 8 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 body | nmod:poss |
| 9 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 claws | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 claws | punct |
| 11 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 touch | obj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 touch | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 begins | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 begins | cc |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 soon | advmod |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 begins | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 begins | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 begins | nsubj |
| 20 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 touch | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 claw | mark |
| 22 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 begins | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 eyes | case |
| 24 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 claw | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 seize | punct |
| 27 | seize | seize | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 touch | conj |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 seize | obj |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 legs | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 legs | det |
| 31 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 seize | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 touch | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch | imperative | you not said here | ZHAR | as claws about thy body; long property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | begin | present | ZHAR | claw | thine eyes | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Eventuality | ||
| 3 | seize | infinitive | you not said here | ZHAR | by the legs | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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: «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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