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description: Then she takes her place in the midst of the dressed-up forms, which cry, one after the other, "Open, O moist earth, that the fair maiden may enter within thee!" Who acts: former, dressed forms, fair maiden. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 44

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Then she takes her place in the midst of the dressed-up forms, which cry, one after the other, "Open, O moist earth, that the fair maiden may enter within thee!"

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**Who acts:** former, dressed forms, fair maiden · **What happens:** take, dress up, cry, enter · **To what, where:** place, midst · **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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (former, dressed forms, fair maiden), 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:pg22373:31:44
# text = Then she takes her place in the midst of the dressed-up forms, which cry, one after the other, "Open, O moist earth, that the fair maiden may enter within thee!"
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
14	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	cry	cry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	_
28	moist	moist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
37	within	within	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | former | former's place |  | the midst of the dressed forms | then | moist earth *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dress up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | the dressed forms |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **enter** *in a quote* | may | the fair maiden |  |  |  |  | within thee | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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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