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title: The (reverend) guest sat down, ate for three people, looked greedily… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The (reverend) guest sat down, ate for three people, looked greedily at what was not his. Who acts: reverend guest. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 105

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The (reverend) guest sat down, ate for three people, looked greedily at what was not his.

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**Who acts:** reverend guest · **What happens:** sit down, eat, look, not be · **To what, where:** guest

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reverend guest), 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:pg22373:13:105
# text = The (reverend) guest sat down, ate for three people, looked greedily at what was not his.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	reverend	reverend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
5	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	greedily	greedily	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | the reverend guest |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **eat** | past | the reverend guest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for three people | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | past | the reverend guest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | greedily *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at what=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | past |  | guest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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