--- title: If they enter the dark forest, Woe follows them there; if they rush… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: If they enter the dark forest, Woe follows them there; if they rush to the pot-house, there they find Woe sitting; when they seek refuge in the grave, Woe stands over it with a shovel and rejoices. Who acts: vain, Woe. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/147/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/) / 147 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 147 If they enter the dark forest, Woe follows them there; if they rush to the pot-house, there they find Woe sitting; when they seek refuge in the grave, Woe stands over it with a shovel and rejoices. **Who acts:** vain, Woe · **What happens:** enter, follow, rush, find, sit, seek · **To what, where:** dark forest, vain, Woe, refuge, grave This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vain, Woe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:35:147 # text = If they enter the dark forest, Woe follows them there; if they rush to the pot-house, there they find Woe sitting; when they seek refuge in the grave, Woe stands over it with a shovel and rejoices. 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 enter enter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 Woe woe NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 13 if if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 rush rush VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 22 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 24 expl _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 25 Woe Woe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 seek seek VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 31 refuge refuge NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 Woe Woe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 38 over over ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 shovel shovel NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 rejoices rejoice VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enter** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | vain | the dark forest | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination | | 2 | **follow** | present | Woe | vain | | there | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **rush** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | vain | | | | | to the pot house *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result | | 4 | **find** | present | vain | Woe | | there | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woe=Topic | | 5 | **sit** | gerund | Woe *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **seek** | present | vain | refuge | | the grave | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme in grave=Location | | 7 | **stand** | present | Woe | | | grave | | with a shovel | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Location | | 8 | **rejoice** | present | Woe *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/146/) - next →: [sentence 148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/148/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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