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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 158

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The Soldier stayed awhile to recover his breath, crept out of the stove, put the merchant's daughter back in her coffin, and took to reading the psalter again.

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**Who acts:** Soldier · **What happens:** stay, recover, creep out, put, take, read · **To what, where:** breath, stove, daughter, coffin, psalter

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soldier), 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:pg22373:47:158
# text = The Soldier stayed awhile to recover his breath, crept out of the stove, put the merchant's daughter back in her coffin, and took to reading the psalter again.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	psalter	psalter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	again	again	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | the Soldier |  |  |  |  | awhile *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **recover** | to-infinitive | the Soldier *not said here* | SOLDIER's breath |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |
| 3 | **creep out** | past | the Soldier *not said here* | the stove |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location stove=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive | the Soldier *not said here* | the merchant's daughter |  | daughter's coffin |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme in coffin=Destination |
| 5 | **take** | past | the Soldier *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **read** | gerund | the Soldier *not said here* | the psalter |  |  | again |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent psalter=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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