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description: The incident of the midnight watch by a father's grave, kept by a son to whom the dead man appears and gives a magic horse, often occurs in the Skazkas. Who acts: incident, dead man. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, with 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 86

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The incident of the midnight watch by a father's grave, kept by a son to whom the dead man appears and gives a magic horse, often occurs in the Skazkas.

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**Who acts:** incident, dead man · **What happens:** watch, keep, appear, give, occur · **To what, where:** grave, magic horse, Skazkas

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (incident, dead man), 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:pg22373:45:86
# text = The incident of the midnight watch by a father's grave, kept by a son to whom the dead man appears and gives a magic horse, often occurs in the Skazkas.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	often	often	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Skazkas	Skazkas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | infinitive | the incident of the midnight |  |  |  |  | by a father's grave | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by grave=Location |
| 2 | **keep** | participle |  | a father's grave *not said here* |  |  |  | by a son | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by son=Location |
| 3 | **appear** | present | the dead man |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | present | the dead man *not said here* | a magic horse |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 5 | **occur** | present | the dead man *not said here* |  |  | the Skazkas |  | often *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in skazkas=Location |

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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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