--- title: On the way the living man expresses a desire to see something of the… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: On the way the living man expresses a desire to see something of the world beyond the grave, and the corpse fulfils his wish, having first placed on his head a sod cut in the graveyard. Who acts: living man, corpse. 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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 (living man, corpse), 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:pg22373:52:185 # text = On the way the living man expresses a desire to see something of the world beyond the grave, and the corpse fulfils his wish, having first placed on his head a sod cut in the graveyard. 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 expresses express VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 12 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 beyond beyond ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 corpse corpse NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 fulfils fulfil VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 28 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 29 advmod _ _ 29 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 xcomp _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 sod sod NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 graveyard graveyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **express** | present | the living man | a desire | | the way | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme | | 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | the living man *not said here* | something | | | | beyond the grave | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | | 3 | **fulfil** | present | the corpse | corpse's wish | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | gerund | the corpse *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **place** | participle | the corpse *not said here* | | | corpse's head and a sod | | first *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on head=Destination | | 6 | **cut** | participle | | a sod *not said here* | | the graveyard | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **wish** | | corpse | | | | | | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 184](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/52/184/) - next →: [sentence 186](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/52/186/) - ↑ back to [Ghost Stories., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/52/)