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description: When you come into the house where the youngsters were killed, pour some live coals into a pot and put the piece of the shroud in with them, and then lock the door. Who acts: you. 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 82

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When you come into the house where the youngsters were killed, pour some live coals into a pot and put the piece of the shroud in with them, and then lock the door.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** come, kill, pour, put in, lock · **To what, where:** house, youngsters, live coals, pot, piece, door

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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 (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:pg22373:53:82
# text = When you come into the house where the youngsters were killed, pour some live coals into a pot and put the piece of the shroud in with them, and then lock the door.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	youngsters	youngster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	pour	pour	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	shroud	shroud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
33	lock	lock	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | you |  |  | the house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **kill** | past · passive |  | the youngsters |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **pour** | imperative | you *not said here* | some live coals |  | a pot |  |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent coal=Theme into pot=Destination |
| 4 | **put in** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the piece of the shroud |  |  |  | with youngsters *= youngster* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent piece=Goal |
| 5 | **lock** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the door |  |  | then |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |

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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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