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description: Their presence in a cottage is considered a good omen by the peasants, who leave out milk for them to drink, and who think that to kill such visitors would be a terrible sin. Who acts: peasants, names. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHO
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 87

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Their presence in a cottage is considered a good omen by the peasants, who leave out milk for them to drink, and who think that to kill such visitors would be a terrible sin.

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**Who acts:** peasants, names · **What happens:** consider, leave out, drink, think, kill, be · **To what, where:** presence, milk, such visitors, terrible sin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (peasants, names), 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:pg22373:25:87
# text = Their presence in a cottage is considered a good omen by the peasants, who leave out milk for them to drink, and who think that to kill such visitors would be a terrible sin.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	omen	omen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
30	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | present · passive | the peasants | names's presence in a cottage |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **leave out** | present | the peasants | milk |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme |
| 3 | **drink** | to-infinitive | names *= name* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **kill** | to-infinitive |  | such visitors |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | would |  | a terrible sin |  |  |  |  | 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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