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description: At ten o'clock the relations began taking leave of the deceased; then they set to work to fasten iron hoops round the coffin. Who acts: relations. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 52

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At ten o'clock the relations began taking leave of the deceased; then they set to work to fasten iron hoops round the coffin.

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**Who acts:** relations · **What happens:** begin, take, decease, set, work, fasten · **To what, where:** ten o'clock, leave, iron hoops

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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), 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:pg22373:48:52
# text = At ten o'clock the relations began taking leave of the deceased; then they set to work to fasten iron hoops round the coffin.
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	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	deceased	decease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	fasten	fasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	hoops	hoop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	round	round	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the relations |  |  | ten o'clock |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | the relations *not said here* | leave |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
| 3 | **decease** | participle |  | leave *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **set** | past | relations *= relation* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **work** | to-infinitive | relations *= relation* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **fasten** | to-infinitive | relations *= relation* *not said here* | iron hoops |  |  |  | round the coffin | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoop=Patient |

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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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