--- title: There was a village (says one of the legends of the Chernigof Govern… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: There was a village (says one of the legends of the Chernigof Government) in which lived more than a thousand witches, and they used to steal the holy stars, until at last "there was not one left to light our sinful world." Who acts: village, witches. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Col --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/32/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/) / 32 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 32 There was a village (says one of the legends of the Chernigof Government) in which lived more than a thousand witches, and they used to steal the holy stars, until at last "there was not one left to light our sinful world." **Who acts:** village, witches · **What happens:** be, say, live, use, steal, leave · **To what, where:** one, thousand witches, holy stars, sinful world, light · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (village, witches), 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:pg22373:58:32 # text = There was a village (says one of the legends of the Chernigof Government) in which lived more than a thousand witches, and they used to steal the holy stars, until at last "there was not one left to light our sinful world." 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 legends legend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Chernigof Chernigof PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Government Government PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 19 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 22 advmod _ _ 20 than than ADP IN _ 19 fixed _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 witches witch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 steal steal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 until until ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 obl _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 39 expl _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nsubj _ _ 42 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 acl _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 45 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 46 sinful sinful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | a village | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a village *not said here* | one of the legends of the Chernigof Government | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic | | 3 | **live** | past | a village | thousand witches | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme witch=Location | | 4 | **use** | past | witches *= witch* | | | | until last | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **steal** | to-infinitive | witches *= witch* *not said here* | the holy stars | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location star=Theme | | 6 | **leave** *in a quote* | participle | | our sinful world | | light | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to light=Initial\_Location | 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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/33/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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