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description: It is as a vitalized corpse that he comes to trouble mankind, often subject to human appetites, constantly endowed with more than human strength and malignity. Who acts: dwelling, visitor. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2, with i
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 191

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It is as a vitalized corpse that he comes to trouble mankind, often subject to human appetites, constantly endowed with more than human strength and malignity.

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**Who acts:** dwelling, visitor · **What happens:** vitalize, be, come, subject, endow · **To what, where:** human appetites

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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 (dwelling, visitor), 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:pg22373:52:191
# text = It is as a vitalized corpse that he comes to trouble mankind, often subject to human appetites, constantly endowed with more than human strength and malignity.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	vitalized	vitalize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	subject	subject	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	appetites	appetite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	endowed	endow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	26	advmod	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	malignity	malignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vitalize** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | dwelling |  |  |  |  | as a vitalized corpse | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | present | visitor |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **subject** | present | dwelling *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to human appetites; often *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **endow** | participle |  | human appetites *not said here* |  |  |  | with human strength and malignity; constantly *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with strength=Theme |

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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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