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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 13

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But "the Evil One came to the gates of Paradise, and threw the dog a piece of bread, and the dog went and let the Evil One into Paradise.

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**Who acts:** Evil One, dog · **What happens:** come, throw, go, let · **To what, where:** gates, piece, dog, One, Paradise

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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 (Evil One, dog), 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:pg22373:56:13
# text = But "the Evil One came to the gates of Paradise, and threw the dog a piece of bread, and the dog went and let the Evil One into Paradise.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	One	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Paradise	paradise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Evil	Evil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:unmarked	_	_
30	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	obj	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Paradise	paradise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | past | the Evil One |  |  | the gates of Paradise |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **throw** *in a quote* | past | the Evil One *not said here* | a piece of bread | the dog |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dog=Destination piece=Theme |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | past | the dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | the dog *not said here* | the One  Evil |  | Paradise |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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