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description: While the consequent revelry was in progress, Satan offered to present to the bridegroom a receipt which a father had given to the devils when he sold them his son. Who acts: consequent revelry, Satan, father. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter V
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 21

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While the consequent revelry was in progress, Satan offered to present to the bridegroom a receipt which a father had given to the devils when he sold them his son.

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**Who acts:** consequent revelry, Satan, father · **What happens:** be, offer, present, give, sell · **To what, where:** progress, receipt, bridegroom, devils, employers

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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 (consequent revelry, Satan, father), 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:pg22373:62:21
# text = While the consequent revelry was in progress, Satan offered to present to the bridegroom a receipt which a father had given to the devils when he sold them his son.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	consequent	consequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	revelry	revelry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	progress	progress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	Satan	Satan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	receipt	receipt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the consequent revelry |  |  | progress |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **offer** | past | Satan |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **present** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Satan *not said here* | a receipt | the bridegroom |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent receipt=Theme to bridegroom=Recipient |
| 4 | **give** | past · perfect | a father | a receipt | the devils |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Theme to devil=Recipient |
| 5 | **sell** | past | father | employers *= employer* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient son=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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