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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 1

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The Russian peasants have very confused ideas about the local habitation of the disembodied spirit, after its former tenement has been laid in the grave.

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**Who acts:** Russian peasants · **What happens:** have, disembody, lay · **To what, where:** confused ideas, former tenement, grave

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian peasants), 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:pg22373:51:1
# text = The Russian peasants have very confused ideas about the local habitation of the disembodied spirit, after its former tenement has been laid in the grave.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	confused	confused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	habitation	habitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	disembodied	disembody	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	tenement	tenement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Russian peasants | confused ideas |  |  |  | about the local habitation of the disembodied spirit | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
| 2 | **disembody** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lay** | present · perfect · passive |  | spirit's former tenement |  | the grave |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grave=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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