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title: The Little-Russians hold that if a vampire's hands have grown numb f… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 95

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:54:95
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Russians	Russian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	vampire	vampire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
14	numb	numb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	crossed	cross	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
25	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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