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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 101

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In the guise of indigent wayfarers, the sacred visitors enter into farm-houses and cottages and ask for food and lodging; therefore to this day the Russian peasant is ever unwilling to refuse hospitality to any man, fearing lest he might repulse angels unawares.

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**Who acts:** sacred visitors, Russian peasant, peasant · **What happens:** enter, ask, unwill, refuse, fear, repulse · **To what, where:** guise, hospitality, angels unawares · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sacred visitors, Russian peasant, peasant), 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:pg22373:56:101
# text = In the guise of indigent wayfarers, the sacred visitors enter into farm-houses and cottages and ask for food and lodging; therefore to this day the Russian peasant is ever unwilling to refuse hospitality to any man, fearing lest he might repulse angels unawares.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	guise	guise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	indigent	indigent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wayfarers	wayfarer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	enter	enter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	cottages	cottage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	lodging	lodging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
25	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	34	advmod	_	_
34	unwilling	unwill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	40	det	_	_
40	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	advcl	_	_
43	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	repulse	repulse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	ccomp	_	_
47	angels	angel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	compound	_	_
48	unawares	unaware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | present | the sacred visitors |  |  | the guise of indigent wayfarers |  | into farm houses and cottages | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | the sacred visitors *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for food and lodging | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **unwill** | present · progressive | the Russian peasant |  |  |  | ever; day |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **refuse** | to-infinitive | the Russian peasant *not said here* | hospitality |  |  |  | to any man | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hospitality=Theme |
| 5 | **fear** | gerund | the Russian peasant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **repulse** | might | peasant | angels unawares |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus unaware=Experiencer |

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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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