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description: As illustrative of this idea, Mr. Henderson states, on the authority of "an old Northumbrian hind," that "in one case, just as a funeral was about to leave the house, the cat jumped over the coffin, and no one would move till the cat was destroyed." Who acts: funeral, cat, one. A sentence of «Russia
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 95

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As illustrative of this idea, Mr. Henderson states, on the authority of "an old Northumbrian hind," that "in one case, just as a funeral was about to leave the house, the cat jumped over the coffin, and no one would move till the cat was destroyed."

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**Who acts:** funeral, cat, one · **What happens:** be, leave, jump, move, destroy · **To what, where:** house, coffin, cat

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (funeral, cat, one), 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:pg22373:55:95
# text = As illustrative of this idea, Mr. Henderson states, on the authority of "an old Northumbrian hind," that "in one case, just as a funeral was about to leave the house, the cat jumped over the coffin, and no one would move till the cat was destroyed."
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	illustrative	illustrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Henderson	Henderson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	Northumbrian	Northumbrian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	hind	hind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	just	just	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	parataxis	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
42	over	over	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	48	det	_	_
48	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
49	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
51	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
54	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux:pass	_	_
55	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | a funeral |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a funeral *not said here* | the house |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 3 | **jump** *in a quote* | past | the cat | the house *not said here* |  | the coffin |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent house=Theme over coffin=Trajectory |
| 4 | **move** *in a quote* | would | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **destroy** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the cat |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=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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