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title: When she rushes at thee, scatter thy nuts, and the nuts will go roll… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 76

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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.

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

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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 (shaking, nuts, it), 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:pg29672:8:76
# text = 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.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rushes	rush	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	scatter	scatter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	till	till	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	cockcrow	cockcrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	nmod:unmarked	_	_
33	up	up	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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