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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 45

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After a time he reached Kief, visited the \_Lavra\_, prayed to God, bowed down before the holy relics, and then started again for his birthplace, a provincial town not far off.

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**Who acts:** SOLDIER · **What happens:** reach, visit, pray, bow down, start · **To what, where:** Kief, Lavra, God, holy relics

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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:pg22373:47:45
# text = After a time he reached Kief, visited the _Lavra_, prayed to God, bowed down before the holy relics, and then started again for his birthplace, a provincial town not far off.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Kief	Kief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Lavra	Lavra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	relics	relic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	birthplace	birthplace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	provincial	provincial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
37	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	_
38	off	off	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | SOLDIER | Kief |  |  | time |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent kief=Theme |
| 2 | **visit** | past |  | the Lavra |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lavra=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **pray** | past |  |  | God |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **bow down** | past |  |  |  | the holy relics |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before relic=Location |
| 5 | **start** | past | SOLDIER *not said here* |  |  |  | then; again | for SOLDIER's birthplace and a provincial town | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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