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title: Then the grave opened and the corpse with the coffin lid got out, wi… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the grave opened and the corpse with the coffin lid got out, with his white shroud on; got out and ran up to the church door, laid the coffin lid at the gate and himself went into the village. Who acts: grave, corpse, Iván. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2,
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 69

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Then the grave opened and the corpse with the coffin lid got out, with his white shroud on; got out and ran up to the church door, laid the coffin lid at the gate and himself went into the village.

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**Who acts:** grave, corpse, Iván · **What happens:** open, get out, run up, lay, go · **To what, where:** coffin lid, gate, village

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grave, corpse, Iván), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:2:69
# text = Then the grave opened and the corpse with the coffin lid got out, with his white shroud on; got out and ran up to the church door, laid the coffin lid at the gate and himself went into the village.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	shroud	shroud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	nsubj	_	_
40	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
41	into	into	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | the grave |  |  |  | then |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get out** | past | the corpse with the coffin lid |  |  |  |  | with Iván's white shroud | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get out** | past | the grave *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **run up** | past | the grave *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the church door *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result |
| 5 | **lay** | past | the grave *not said here* | the coffin lid |  | the gate |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lid=Theme at gate=Destination |
| 6 | **go** | past | Iván |  |  | the village |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into village=Initial\_Location |

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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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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