--- title: But on the eve of the festival, when he was sitting at home in sadne… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: But on the eve of the festival, when he was sitting at home in sadness, he suddenly rose and drew near to the sacred painting which hung in the corner, and sighed heavily, and said, Who acts: story, sacred painting. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Cha --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/57/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/57/) / 28 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 28 But on the eve of the festival, when he was sitting at home in sadness, he suddenly rose and drew near to the sacred painting which hung in the corner, and sighed heavily, and said, **Who acts:** story, sacred painting · **What happens:** sit, rise, draw, hang, sigh, say · **To what, where:** home, eve, sacred painting, corner · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, sacred painting), 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:pg22373:57:28 # text = But on the eve of the festival, when he was sitting at home in sadness, he suddenly rose and drew near to the sacred painting which hung in the corner, and sighed heavily, and said, 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 eve eve NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 festival festival NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 when when SCONJ WRB _ 12 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 acl _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 sadness sadness NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 23 near near ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 sacred sacred ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 painting painting NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 sighed sigh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 36 heavily heavily ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | story | | | home | | in sadness | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location | | 2 | **rise** | past | story | | | the eve of the festival | | suddenly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on eve=Location | | 3 | **draw** | past | story *not said here* | | | the sacred painting | | near *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to painting=Destination | | 4 | **hang** | past | the sacred painting | | | the corner | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | | 5 | **sigh** | past | story *not said here* | | | | | heavily *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/57/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/57/29/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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