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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 45

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Sometimes the quaint lyric drama of a peasant wedding is performed before our eyes, sometimes we follow a funeral party to one of those dismal and desolate nooks in which the Russian villagers deposit their dead.

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**Who acts:** we, Russian villagers · **What happens:** perform, follow, desolate, deposit · **To what, where:** quaint lyric drama, funeral party, one, nooks, dead

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, Russian villagers), 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:pg22373:11:45
# text = Sometimes the quaint lyric drama of a peasant wedding is performed before our eyes, sometimes we follow a funeral party to one of those dismal and desolate nooks in which the Russian villagers deposit their dead.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	quaint	quaint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	lyric	lyric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	drama	drama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	peasant	peasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	nmod	_	_
26	dismal	dismal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
29	nooks	nook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	villagers	villager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	deposit	deposit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perform** | present · passive |  | the quaint lyric drama of a peasant wedding |  |  | before our eyes | sometimes *property* | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | present | we | a funeral party | one of those |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent party=Theme to one=Trajectory |
| 3 | **desolate** | infinitive | we *not said here* | nooks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **deposit** | present | the Russian villagers | villagers's dead |  | nooks |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dead=Theme in which=Destination |

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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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