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title: Next night, when the spinners had all gone home to their own houses,… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Next night, when the spinners had all gone home to their own houses, at the very same hour as before, the corpse came, tapped at the window, and cried: Who acts: spinners, corpse. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3, with its depend
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 39

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Next night, when the spinners had all gone home to their own houses, at the very same hour as before, the corpse came, tapped at the window, and cried:

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**Who acts:** spinners, corpse · **What happens:** have, come, tap, cry · **To what, where:** gone home

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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 (spinners, corpse), 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:pg22373:53:39
# text = Next night, when the spinners had all gone home to their own houses, at the very same hour as before, the corpse came, tapped at the window, and cried:
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spinners	spinner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	before	before	ADV	RB	_	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	tapped	tap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	parataxis	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the spinners | gone home |  |  |  | to spinners's own houses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past | the corpse |  |  |  | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tap** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | at the window | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at window=Patient |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the corpse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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