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title: There it was fighting with the corpse--and you deserted it, and thou… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: There it was fighting with the corpse--and you deserted it, and thought only of saving yourself! Who acts: work, you. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 152

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There it was fighting with the corpse--and you deserted it, and thought only of saving yourself!

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**Who acts:** work, you · **What happens:** fight, desert, think, save · **To what, where:** work, yourself · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (work, you), 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:pg22373:53:152
# text = There it was fighting with the corpse--and you deserted it, and thought only of saving yourself!
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	deserted	desert	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	ccomp	_	_
19	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past · progressive | work |  |  | there |  | with the corpse | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with corpse=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **desert** | past | you | work |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme it=Source |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **save** | gerund |  | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=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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