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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 190

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He comes not as a mere phantom, intangible, impalpable, incapable of physical exertion, haunting the dwelling which once was his home, or the spot to which he is drawn by the memory of some unexpiated crime.

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**Who acts:** visitor, dwelling, memory · **What happens:** not come, haunt, be, draw · **To what, where:** dwelling, home, visitor, spot

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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 (visitor, dwelling, memory), 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:pg22373:52:190
# text = He comes not as a mere phantom, intangible, impalpable, incapable of physical exertion, haunting the dwelling which once was his home, or the spot to which he is drawn by the memory of some unexpiated crime.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	phantom	phantom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	intangible	intangible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	impalpable	impalpable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	incapable	incapable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	physical	physical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	exertion	exertion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	haunting	haunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
22	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	25	advmod	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obl	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	41	det	_	_
40	unexpiated	unexpiated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **come** | present | visitor |  |  |  |  | as a mere phantom and incapable of physical exertion | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **haunt** | gerund | visitor *not said here* | the dwelling |  |  |  | the spot *obl* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus dwelling=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the dwelling | visitor's home |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **draw** | present · passive | the memory of some unexpiated crime | visitor |  | the spot |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to which=Destination |

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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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