--- title: When he rises to his feet, he is all overgrown with mosses and shrub… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: When he rises to his feet, he is all overgrown with mosses and shrub (var han overvoxen med Mose og Busker), and when he reaches the outer world he finds all things changed.] Who acts: guide, han overvoxen, outer world, things. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Fol --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/52/187/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Ghost Stories., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/52/) / 187 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 187 When he rises to his feet, he is all overgrown with mosses and shrub (var han overvoxen med Mose og Busker), and when he reaches the outer world he finds all things changed.\] **Who acts:** guide, han overvoxen, outer world, things · **What happens:** rise, overgrow, m, reach, find, change · **To what, where:** feet, guide, Busker · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (guide, han overvoxen, outer world, things), 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:pg22373:52:187 # text = When he rises to his feet, he is all overgrown with mosses and shrub (var han overvoxen med Mose og Busker), and when he reaches the outer world he finds all things changed.] 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 10 all all ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 overgrown overgrow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 mosses moss NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 shrub shrub NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 var var NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 han han NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 overvoxen overvoxen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 med m VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 21 Mose Mose PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 og og NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:desc _ _ 23 Busker Busker PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 outer outer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 35 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 36 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 37 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | present | guide | | | guide's feet | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **overgrow** | present · passive | | guide | | | | with mosses and shrub; all *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **m** | past | han overvoxen | Busker Mose og | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **reach** | present | guide | | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **find** | present | the outer world | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **change** | past | all things | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 186](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/52/186/) - next →: [sentence 188](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/52/188/) - ↑ back to [Ghost Stories., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/52/)