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title: There he saw its inmates, men and women and little children, all sob… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: There he saw its inmates, men and women and little children, all sobbing and crying and praying to God; and when they had done praying, they began putting on clean shirts. Who acts: sort, all, inmates. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcr
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 103

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There he saw its inmates, men and women and little children, all sobbing and crying and praying to God; and when they had done praying, they began putting on clean shirts.

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**Who acts:** sort, all, inmates · **What happens:** see, sob, cry, pray, do, begin · **To what, where:** inmates, God, clean shirts

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sort, all, inmates), 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:pg22373:46:103
# text = There he saw its inmates, men and women and little children, all sobbing and crying and praying to God; and when they had done praying, they began putting on clean shirts.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	inmates	inmate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sobbing	sob	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	praying	pray	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
28	praying	pray	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
32	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	xcomp	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	shirts	shirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | sort | horse's inmates and men and women and little children |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer inmate=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sob** | gerund | all |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | all *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pray** | gerund | all *not said here* |  | God |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **do** | past · perfect | inmates *= inmate* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **pray** | gerund | inmates *= inmate* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **begin** | past | inmates *= inmate* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 8 | **put** | gerund | inmates *= inmate* *not said here* |  |  | clean shirts |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shirt=Destination |

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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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