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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 95

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And when one of God's holy days came round, he would go to church and offer each saint a taper; but he would go up to the Demon and spit in his face.

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**Who acts:** one, man · **What happens:** come round, go, offer, go up · **To what, where:** church, saint

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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 (one, man), 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:pg22373:17:95
# text = And when one of God's holy days came round, he would go to church and offer each saint a taper; but he would go up to the Demon and spit in his face.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
10	round	round	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	taper	taper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
28	up	up	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	spit	spit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come round** | past | one of God's holy days |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | would | man |  |  | church |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **offer** | infinitive | man *not said here* | each saint |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent saint=Goal taper=Theme |
| 4 | **go up** | would | man |  |  |  |  | to the Demon and spit; in man's face | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in face=Attribute |

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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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