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title: I'll caress the mare, and then go on nibbling till thou hast milked… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I'll caress the mare, and then go on nibbling till thou hast milked all three vats full." Who acts: I. 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 212

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

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

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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 (I), 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:pg29672:8:212
# text = I'll caress the mare, and then go on nibbling till thou hast milked all three vats full."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	caress	caress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	nibbling	nibbling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	milked	milk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	vats	vat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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