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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 139

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Go quickly to the priest, and ask him this favor--that if you die, your body shall not be taken out of the house through the doorway, but that the ground shall be dug away from under the threshold, and that you shall be dragged out through that opening.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** go, ask, die, not take out, dig away, drag out · **To what, where:** priest, favor, child, body, house, ground

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg22373:12:139
# text = Go quickly to the priest, and ask him this favor--that if you die, your body shall not be taken out of the house through the doorway, but that the ground shall be dug away from under the threshold, and that you shall be dragged out through that opening.
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	favor	favor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	through	through	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
39	away	away	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	under	under	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
46	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
47	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	dragged	drag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
51	out	out	ADP	RP	_	50	compound:prt	_	_
52	through	through	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	54	det	_	_
54	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the priest |  | quickly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to priest=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* | this favor | child |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **not** **take out** | shall · passive |  | your body |  | the house through the doorway |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **dig away** | shall · passive |  | the ground |  | the threshold |  | away *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from threshold=Material |
| 6 | **drag out** | shall · passive |  | you |  | that opening |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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:** «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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