Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 174
But when she begins to taste of the wine and the brandy, then she will go to sleep in the tent, and thou canst catch her easily and hold her fast!"
Who acts: NASTASIA, thou · What happens: begin, taste, go, sleep, catch, hold · To what, where: tent, NASTASIA
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 (NASTASIA, thou), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 begins | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 begins | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 begins | nsubj |
| 4 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 taste | mark |
| 6 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 begins | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wine | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wine | det |
| 9 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taste | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 brandy | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 brandy | det |
| 12 | brandy | brandy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wine | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 go | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 sleep | mark |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | xcomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 tent | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tent | det |
| 22 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sleep | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 catch | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 catch | cc |
| 25 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 catch | nsubj |
| 26 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 27 catch | aux |
| 27 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | advcl |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 catch | obj |
| 29 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 27 catch | advmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 hold | cc |
| 31 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 catch | conj |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 hold | obj |
| 33 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 hold | advmod |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | NASTASIA | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | taste | to-infinitive | NASTASIA not said here | of the wine and the brandy | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | future | NASTASIA | then | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | NASTASIA not said here | the tent | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tent=Location | ||||
| 5 | catch | can | thou | NASTASIA | easily property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 6 | hold | infinitive | thou not said here | NASTASIA | fast property | vn keep-15.2 «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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