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title: At ten o'clock the relations of the deceased will begin taking leave… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: At ten o'clock the relations of the deceased will begin taking leave of her; and afterwards they will fasten three iron hoops round the coffin, and place it on the funeral car; and at eleven o'clock they will tell you to take it to the graveyard. Who acts: relations, leave. A sentence of «Russian Fa
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 46

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At ten o'clock the relations of the deceased will begin taking leave of her; and afterwards they will fasten three iron hoops round the coffin, and place it on the funeral car; and at eleven o'clock they will tell you to take it to the graveyard.

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**Who acts:** relations, leave · **What happens:** decease, begin, take, fasten, place, tell · **To what, where:** relations, ten o'clock, leave, three iron hoops, funeral car, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (relations, leave), 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:pg22373:48:46
# text = At ten o'clock the relations of the deceased will begin taking leave of her; and afterwards they will fasten three iron hoops round the coffin, and place it on the funeral car; and at eleven o'clock they will tell you to take it to the graveyard.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	deceased	decease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	fasten	fasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
21	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	hoops	hoop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	round	round	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	iobj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	ccomp	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decease** | participle |  | the relations *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **begin** | future | the relations |  |  | ten o'clock |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | the relations *not said here* | leave of witch |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
| 4 | **fasten** | future | relations *= relation* | three iron hoops |  |  |  | round the coffin; afterwards *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoop=Patient |
| 5 | **place** |  | leave |  |  | the funeral car |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | relations *= relation* |  | you | eleven o'clock |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | leave |  | the graveyard |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to graveyard=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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