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title: [Next morning Vasilissa "buried the skull," locked up the house and… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [Next morning Vasilissa "buried the skull," locked up the house and took up her quarters in a neighboring town. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, 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 II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 25

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\[Next morning Vasilissa "buried the skull," locked up the house and took up her quarters in a neighboring town.

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**What happens:** bury, lock up, take up, neighbor · **To what, where:** skull, house, quarters, neighboring town

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg22373:31:25
# text = [Next morning Vasilissa "buried the skull," locked up the house and took up her quarters in a neighboring town.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
23	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** *in a quote* | past |  | the skull |  |  | morning |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=Theme |
| 2 | **lock up** | participle |  | the house |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
| 3 | **take up** | past |  | Vasilissa's quarters |  | a neighboring town |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent quarter=Value in town=Location |
| 4 | **neighbor** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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