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description: One day the old man went to church, and as he stood before a picture of the Last Judgment he saw a Demon painted there--such a terrible one!--black, with horns and a tail. Who acts: old man, man, Demon. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRO
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 83

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One day the old man went to church, and as he stood before a picture of the Last Judgment he saw a Demon painted there--such a terrible one!--black, with horns and a tail.

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**Who acts:** old man, man, Demon · **What happens:** go, stand, see, paint · **To what, where:** church, terrible one, picture, Last Judgment · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, man, Demon), 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:pg22373:17:83
# text = One day the old man went to church, and as he stood before a picture of the Last Judgment he saw a Demon painted there--such a terrible one!--black, with horns and a tail.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Demon	Demon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	31	det:predet	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the old man |  |  | church | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past | man | such terrible one |  | a picture of the Last Judgment |  | with horns and a tail | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before picture=Location |
| 3 | **see** | past | man | the Last Judgment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **paint** | past | a Demon |  |  | there |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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