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title: Stand in the very middle of the church, fenced round about with thy… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Stand in the very middle of the church, fenced round about with thy laths and boards, and take with thee a basket full of pears. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 60

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Stand in the very middle of the church, fenced round about with thy laths and boards, and take with thee a basket full of pears.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** stand, fence, take · **To what, where:** middle, basket

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg29672:8:60
# text = Stand in the very middle of the church, fenced round about with thy laths and boards, and take with thee a basket full of pears.
1	Stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	fenced	fence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
11	round	round	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	laths	lath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	boards	board	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	obl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	pears	pear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the middle of the church |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location |
| 2 | **fence** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with thy laths and boards; about, round *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with lath=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a basket |  |  |  | with thee | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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