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title: Late one evening a certain artisan happened to be returning home fro… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Late one evening a certain artisan happened to be returning home from a jovial feast in a distant village. Who acts: certain artisan. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 110

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Late one evening a certain artisan happened to be returning home from a jovial feast in a distant village.

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**Who acts:** certain artisan · **What happens:** happen, return · **To what, where:** jovial feast

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain artisan), 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:pg22373:52:110
# text = Late one evening a certain artisan happened to be returning home from a jovial feast in a distant village.
1	Late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	artisan	artisan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	jovial	jovial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | a certain artisan |  |  |  | evening | late *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | to-infinitive · progressive | a certain artisan *not said here* |  |  | a jovial feast in a distant village |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from feast=Initial\_Location |

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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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