--- title: When the demon returns to hell he finds its gates closed, and he is… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: When the demon returns to hell he finds its gates closed, and he is informed by "the oldest of the devils," that he must expiate his crime by a three years' service on earth. Who acts: demon, man, three years. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter V --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/137/) [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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/) / 137 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 137 When the demon returns to hell he finds its gates closed, and he is informed by "the oldest of the devils," that he must expiate his crime by a three years' service on earth. **Who acts:** demon, man, three years · **What happens:** return, find, close, inform, expiate, incriminate · **To what, where:** gates, man, crime, earth This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (demon, man, three years), 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:pg22373:61:137 # text = When the demon returns to hell he finds its gates closed, and he is informed by "the oldest of the devils," that he must expiate his crime by a three years' service on earth. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 demon demon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 returns return VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 hell hell NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 informed inform VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 oldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 ccomp _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 devils devil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 expiate expiate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 crime crime NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ' 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | present | the demon | | | | | to hell *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to hell=Result | | 2 | **find** | present | man | hell's gates | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Topic | | 3 | **close** | participle | | hell's gates *not said here* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **inform** *speech: other* | present · passive | | man | | | | | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 5 | **expiate** | must | man | man's crime | | | | by a three years's service on earth | tree rules | | 6 | **incriminate** | | man | | | | | | nom crime «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **service** | | a three years | | | earth | | | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent on=place | 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 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/136/) - next →: [sentence 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/138/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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