Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 212

I'll caress the mare, and then go on nibbling till thou hast milked all three vats full."

Who acts: I · What happens: caress, go, milk · To what, where: mare, nibbling, thou

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 caress	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 caress	aux
3	caress	caress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mare	det
5	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caress	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 go	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 go	advmod
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 caress	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 nibbling	case
11	nibbling	nibbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 milked	mark
13	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 milked	nsubj:pass
14	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 milked	aux:pass
15	milked	milk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 go	advcl
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 vats	det
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 vats	nummod
18	vats	vat	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 full	nsubj
19	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 milked	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 caress	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 caress	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	caress	future	I	the mare			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Experiencer
2	go	infinitive	I not said here		nibbling	then	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on nibbling=Location
3	milk	present · passive		thou			vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

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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