--- title: The priest searched through the church-books, and found that, three… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The priest searched through the church-books, and found that, three hundred years before, this occurrence had taken place: a bridegroom had gone to the graveyard on his wedding-day, and had disappeared. Who acts: priest, bridegroom. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (priest, bridegroom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:52:174 # text = The priest searched through the church-books, and found that, three hundred years before, this occurrence had taken place: a bridegroom had gone to the graveyard on his wedding-day, and had disappeared. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 searched search VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 through through ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 compound _ _ 15 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 17 before before ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 20 occurrence occurrence NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 23 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 bridegroom bridegroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 parataxis _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 graveyard graveyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 34 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 disappeared disappear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **search** | participle | | the priest *not said here* | | the church books | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through book=Location | | 2 | **find** | past | the priest | | | | year | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **take** | past · perfect · passive | | this occurrence | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination | | 4 | **go** | past · perfect | a bridegroom | | | the graveyard | day | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to graveyard=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **disappear** | past · perfect | a bridegroom *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 173](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/52/173/) - next →: [sentence 175](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/52/175/) - ↑ back to [Ghost Stories., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/52/)