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title: But after they had supped and lain down to sleep, all of a sudden th… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: But after they had supped and lain down to sleep, all of a sudden the corpse tapped at the window and said: Who acts: others, all. 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 30

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But after they had supped and lain down to sleep, all of a sudden the corpse tapped at the window and said:

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**Who acts:** others, all · **What happens:** sup, lie down, sleep, tap, say · **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 (others, all), 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:pg22373:53:30
# text = But after they had supped and lain down to sleep, all of a sudden the corpse tapped at the window and said:
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	supped	sup	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	lain	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	tapped	tap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sup** | past · perfect | others *= other* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lie down** | participle | others *= other* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | others *= other* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tap** | past | all |  |  |  |  | at the window | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at window=Patient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | all *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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