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title: When the moujik saw his dog and the corpse grappling with each other… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 143

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When the moujik saw his dog and the corpse grappling with each other, he was delighted that things had turned out so well for himself, and he set off running home with all his might.

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**Who acts:** moujik · **What happens:** see, be, turn out, set off, run · **To what, where:** dog, things

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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 (moujik), 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:pg22373:53:143
# text = When the moujik saw his dog and the corpse grappling with each other, he was delighted that things had turned out so well for himself, and he set off running home with all his might.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moujik	moujik	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	grappling	grappling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	4	obl	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
33	home	home	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the moujik | moujik's dog and the corpse grappling |  |  |  | with each | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | moujik |  |  |  |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn out** | past · perfect · passive |  | things |  |  |  | for moujik; well *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for himself=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **set off** | past | moujik |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **run** | gerund | moujik *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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