--- title: He chased all the guests and relatives out of the house, threw the w… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: He chased all the guests and relatives out of the house, threw the wedded pair into a slumber, took out two phials and an awl, pierced the hands of the bride and bridegroom with the awl, and began drawing off their blood. Who acts: Warlock, two phials. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Warlock, two phials), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:54:6 # text = He chased all the guests and relatives out of the house, threw the wedded pair into a slumber, took out two phials and an awl, pierced the hands of the bride and bridegroom with the awl, and began drawing off their blood. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 chased chase VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 5 det:predet _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 guests guest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 relatives relative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 out out ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 wedded wed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 slumber slumber NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 phials phial NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 awl awl NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 pierced pierce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 bridegroom bridegroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 awl awl NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 43 drawing draw VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 42 xcomp _ _ 44 off off ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ _ 45 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chase** | past | Warlock | all guests and relatives | | the house | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent guest=Theme out house=Trajectory | | 2 | **throw** | past | | the wedded pair | | | | into a slumber *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer pair=Theme into slumber=Result | | 3 | **wed** | participle | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **take out** | past | | two phials and a awl | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phial=Theme | | 5 | **pierce** | participle | two phials and a awl *not said here* | the hands of the bride and bridegroom with the awl | | | | | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 6 | **begin** | past | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **draw off** | gerund | | bride's blood | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/54/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/54/7/) - ↑ back to [Ghost Stories., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/54/)