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description: Past such dangerous spots as these the belated villager will speed with timorous steps, remembering, perhaps, some such uncanny tale as that which comes next. Who acts: belated villager, some, such uncanny tale. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost S
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 108

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Past such dangerous spots as these the belated villager will speed with timorous steps, remembering, perhaps, some such uncanny tale as that which comes next.

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**Who acts:** belated villager, some, such uncanny tale · **What happens:** belat, speed, remember, tale, come · **To what, where:** such dangerous spots

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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 (belated villager, some, such uncanny tale), 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:pg22373:53:108
# text = Past such dangerous spots as these the belated villager will speed with timorous steps, remembering, perhaps, some such uncanny tale as that which comes next.
1	Past	past	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	belated	belat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	villager	villager	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	speed	speed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	timorous	timorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	nsubj	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	uncanny	uncanny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nmod	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	next	next	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **speed** | future | the belated villager |  |  | such dangerous spots as these |  | with timorous steps | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past spot=Trajectory |
| 3 | **remember** | gerund | the belated villager *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tale** |  | some |  |  |  |  | as that; perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | present | such uncanny tale |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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