--- title: Having got into the church, she looked--and saw her betrothed standi… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Having got into the church, she looked--and saw her betrothed standing beside a grave and devouring a dead body--for a corpse had been left for that night in the church. Who acts: stranger. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/53/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/) / 53 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 53 Having got into the church, she looked--and saw her betrothed standing beside a grave and devouring a dead body--for a corpse had been left for that night in the church. **Who acts:** stranger · **What happens:** have, get, look, see, betroth, stand · **To what, where:** church, grave, dead body · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (stranger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:12:53 # text = Having got into the church, she looked--and saw her betrothed standing beside a grave and devouring a dead body--for a corpse had been left for that night in the church. 1 Having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 2 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 xcomp _ _ 3 into into ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 -- -- PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 betrothed betroth VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 14 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 15 beside beside ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 devouring devour VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 -- -- PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 corpse corpse NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 27 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 32 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | gerund | stranger *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | participle | stranger *not said here* | | | the church | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into church=Destination | | 3 | **look** | past | stranger | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **see** | past | stranger *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **betroth** | past | stranger | | | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **stand** | gerund | stranger *not said here* | | | a grave | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside grave=Location | | 7 | **devour** | gerund | stranger *not said here* | a dead body | | | | | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | | 8 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive | stranger *not said here* | | | | night | in the church *result*; for a corpse | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: in church=Result | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/54/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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