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title: So long as she only claws about thy body, touch her not; but as soon… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 161

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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."

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**Who acts:** you, ZHAR · **What happens:** not touch, begin, seize · **To what, where:** ZHAR, claw, eyes

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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.

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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:pg29672:8:161
# text = 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."
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	seize	seize	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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