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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 39

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He entered the hut--there on a bench lay the Leshy stone dead, and by his side a damsel, exclaiming, amid bitter tears:--

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**Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** enter, lie, exclaim · **To what, where:** hut, Leshy stone, bench, amid bitter tears

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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:pg22373:38:39
# text = He entered the hut--there on a bench lay the Leshy stone dead, and by his side a damsel, exclaiming, amid bitter tears:--
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Leshy	Leshy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	amid	amid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | dog | the hut |  |  |  | a side damsel *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination |
| 2 | **lie** | past | dog *not said here* | the Leshy stone |  | a bench; there |  | dead *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stone=Theme |
| 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | gerund | dog *not said here* | amid bitter tears |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tear=Topic |

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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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