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title: At cross-roads, or in the neighborhood of cemeteries, an animated co… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: At cross-roads, or in the neighborhood of cemeteries, an animated corpse of this description often lurks, watching for some unwary wayfarer whom it may be able to slay and eat. Who acts: animated corpse, unwary wayfarer. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore»
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 107

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At cross-roads, or in the neighborhood of cemeteries, an animated corpse of this description often lurks, watching for some unwary wayfarer whom it may be able to slay and eat.

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**Who acts:** animated corpse, unwary wayfarer · **What happens:** lurk, watch, be, slay, eat · **To what, where:** cross-roads

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animated corpse, unwary wayfarer), 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:pg22373:53:107
# text = At cross-roads, or in the neighborhood of cemeteries, an animated corpse of this description often lurks, watching for some unwary wayfarer whom it may be able to slay and eat.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	cross-roads	cross-road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	cemeteries	cemetery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	animated	animated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	often	often	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	lurks	lurk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	unwary	unwary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	wayfarer	wayfarer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
29	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lurk** | present | a animated corpse of this description |  |  | cross-roads in the neighborhood of cemeteries |  | often *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cross-road=Location |
| 2 | **watch** | gerund | a animated corpse of this description *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for some unwary wayfarer | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for wayfarer=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | may | some unwary wayfarer |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **slay** | to-infinitive | some unwary wayfarer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **eat** | infinitive | some unwary wayfarer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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