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title: There was a shaking of the bier--bang! bang!--and the Tsarivna arose… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a shaking of the bier--bang! bang!--and the Tsarivna arose from her coffin and came straight toward him. Who acts: shaking, Tsarivna. 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 67

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There was a shaking of the bier--bang! bang!--and the Tsarivna arose from her coffin and came straight toward him.

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**Who acts:** shaking, Tsarivna · **What happens:** be, arise, come, shake · **To what, where:** coffin, bier

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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 (shaking, Tsarivna), 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:pg29672:8:67
# text = There was a shaking of the bier--bang! bang!--and the Tsarivna arose from her coffin and came straight toward him.
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	shaking	shaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bier	bier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
11	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Tsarivna	Tsarivna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a shaking of the bier and bang |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **arise** | past | the Tsarivna |  |  | shaking's coffin |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | the Tsarivna *not said here* |  |  |  |  | toward lord | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme toward he=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **shake** |  |  | the bier and bang |  |  |  |  | nom shaking «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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