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description: As soon as he entered it, the demon rushed at him crying, "What do you mean, Russian? what have you come here for? Who acts: Boyar, demon, you. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 80

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As soon as he entered it, the demon rushed at him crying, "What do you mean, Russian? what have you come here for?

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**Who acts:** Boyar, demon, you · **What happens:** enter, rush, cry, mean, come · **To what, where:** townspeople, Russian · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boyar, demon, 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:pg22373:15:80
# text = As soon as he entered it, the demon rushed at him crying, "What do you mean, Russian? what have you come here for?
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
27	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | Boyar | townspeople |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |
| 2 | **rush** | past | the demon |  |  |  |  | at Boyar | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the demon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mean** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | Russian |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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