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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 19

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Into a dwelling it shall be a sin to admit thee; into a church if thou dost run, the church must be consecrated anew."

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**Who acts:** dwelling, thou · **What happens:** dwell, be, admit, do, consecrate · **To what, where:** beast, sin, thee, church, run

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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 (dwelling, thou), 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:pg22373:56:19
# text = Into a dwelling it shall be a sin to admit thee; into a church if thou dost run, the church must be consecrated anew."
1	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
3	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	admit	admit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
18	dost	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
19	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	consecrated	consecrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
26	anew	anew	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | gerund |  | beast |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location |
| 2 | **is** | shall | dwelling |  |  | a sin |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **admit** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  | thee |  | a church |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 4 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou | run |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent run=Eventuality |
| 5 | **consecrate** | must · passive |  | the church |  |  |  | anew *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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