--- title: [257] She will run out of the house, and do thou be sure to seize th… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: [257] She will run out of the house, and do thou be sure to seize the opportunity to get into it before she comes back, and immediately slam the door to, and make the sign of the cross over it. Who acts: woman. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/144/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/) / 144 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 144 \[257\] She will run out of the house, and do thou be sure to seize the opportunity to get into it before she comes back, and immediately slam the door to, and make the sign of the cross over it. **Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** run, do, be, seize, get, come back · **To what, where:** house, thou, opportunity, door, sign, cross This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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:pg22373:37:144 # text = [257] She will run out of the house, and do thou be sure to seize the opportunity to get into it before she comes back, and immediately slam the door to, and make the sign of the cross over it. 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 257 257 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 out out ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 do do VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 14 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 obj _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 cop _ _ 16 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 seize seize VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 opportunity opportunity NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 before before SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 28 back back ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 slam slam VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 cross cross NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 over over ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | future | woman | | | the house | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out house=Trajectory | | 2 | **do** | infinitive | | thou | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | infinitive | | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **seize** | to-infinitive | | the opportunity | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme | | 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | | the opportunity *not said here* | | house | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination | | 6 | **come back** | present | woman | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **slam** | infinitive | woman *not said here* | the door | | | | immediately *property* | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | | 8 | **make** | infinitive | | the sign of the cross over house | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product | | 9 | **sign** | | | the cross over house | | | | | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/143/) - next →: [sentence 145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/145/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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