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title: Where the graveyard had been, was now a piece of waste ground. — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where the graveyard had been, was now a piece of waste ground. Who acts: graveyard. 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 168

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Where the graveyard had been, was now a piece of waste ground.

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**Who acts:** graveyard · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** piece

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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 (graveyard), 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:pg22373:52:168
# text = Where the graveyard had been, was now a piece of waste ground.
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the graveyard | a piece |  |  | now | of waste ground | tree rules |

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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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