---
title: But at last some women open it, during his absence from a cottage in… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: But at last some women open it, during his absence from a cottage in which he has left it, and out rush the fiends with a crash and a roar. Who acts: process. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, with its dependency tree and th
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/11/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/) / 11

# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 11

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
But at last some women open it, during his absence from a cottage in which he has left it, and out rush the fiends with a crash and a roar.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** process · **What happens:** open, leave, rush, absent · **To what, where:** whole, last, cottage, fiends

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (process), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg22373:62:11
# text = But at last some women open it, during his absence from a cottage in which he has left it, and out rush the fiends with a crash and a roar.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
6	open	open	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	during	during	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	out	out	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	rush	rush	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fiends	fiend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | present |  | whole |  | last | during process's absence from a cottage |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme at last=Location |
| 2 | **leave** | present · perfect | process | whole |  | a cottage |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in which=Location |
| 3 | **rush** | present |  | the fiends |  |  |  | with a crash and a roar; out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fiend=Trajectory |
| 4 | **absent** |  | process |  |  | a cottage |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent from=place |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/10/)
- next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/12/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/)