Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 76

When she rushes at thee, scatter thy nuts, and the nuts will go rolling all about the church, and it will take her till cockcrow to gather them all up.

Who acts: shaking, nuts, it · What happens: rush, scatter, go, roll, take, gather up · To what, where: thee, nuts, shaking

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 (shaking, nuts, it), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 rushes	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rushes	nsubj
3	rushes	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 go	advcl
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 thee	case
5	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 rushes	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 scatter	punct
7	scatter	scatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rushes	conj
8	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 nuts	nmod:poss
9	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 scatter	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 go	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 nuts	det
13	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 go	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 go	xcomp
17	all	all	ADV	_	20 church	advmod
18	about	about	ADP	_	20 church	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 church	det
20	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rolling	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 take	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 take	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 take	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 take	aux
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	parataxis
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 take	obj
27	till	till	ADP	_	28 cockcrow	case
28	cockcrow	cockcrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 take	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 gather	mark
30	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 take	advcl
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gather	obj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 them	nmod:unmarked
33	up	up	ADV	_	30 gather	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rush	present	shaking			thee			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at thou=Trajectory
2	scatter	infinitive	shaking not said here	thy nuts					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nut=Theme
3	go	future	the nuts						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	roll	gerund	the nuts not said here					about the church	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about church=Trajectory
5	take	future	it		shaking		till cockcrow		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
6	gather up	to-infinitive		nuts = nut					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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