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title: They came to where the wedding was; there they were given drink, and… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: They came to where the wedding was; there they were given drink, and treated with the utmost hospitality. Who acts: They, wedding. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4, 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 4, sentence 4

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They came to where the wedding was; there they were given drink, and treated with the utmost hospitality.

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**Who acts:** They, wedding · **What happens:** come, be, give, treat · **To what, where:** they

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (They, wedding), 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:pg22373:54:4
# text = They came to where the wedding was; there they were given drink, and treated with the utmost hospitality.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	2	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
13	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	utmost	utmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the wedding |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | past · passive |  | they |  | there |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient drink=Theme |
| 4 | **treat** | participle | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the utmost hospitality | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with hospitality=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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