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title: But when she begins to taste of the wine and the brandy, then she wi… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 174

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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!"

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**Who acts:** NASTASIA, thou · **What happens:** begin, taste, go, sleep, catch, hold · **To what, where:** tent, NASTASIA

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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 (NASTASIA, thou), 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:pg29672:8:174
# text = 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!"
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	brandy	brandy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
26	canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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