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description: Into such bodies, it is held, demons enter, and the combination of fiend and corpse goes forth as the terrible Vampire thirsting for blood. Who acts: demons, combination, terrible Vampire. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3, with i
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 58

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Into such bodies, it is held, demons enter, and the combination of fiend and corpse goes forth as the terrible Vampire thirsting for blood.

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**Who acts:** demons, combination, terrible Vampire · **What happens:** hold, enter, go, thirst · **To what, where:** congregation, such bodies

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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 (demons, combination, terrible Vampire), 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:pg22373:53:58
# text = Into such bodies, it is held, demons enter, and the combination of fiend and corpse goes forth as the terrible Vampire thirsting for blood.
1	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	demons	demon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	enter	enter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	combination	combination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fiend	fiend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
20	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Vampire	vampire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	thirsting	thirst	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present · passive |  | congregation |  | such bodies |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **enter** | present | demons |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | present | the combination of fiend and corpse |  |  |  |  | as the terrible Vampire; forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **thirst** | gerund | the terrible Vampire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for blood | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for blood=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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