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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 138

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So he took the pot of gold, carried it outside, flung it on the ground, and bolted indoors again as quickly as possible.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** take, carry, fling, bolt · **To what, where:** pot, ground

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg22373:13:138
# text = So he took the pot of gold, carried it outside, flung it on the ground, and bolted indoors again as quickly as possible.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	bolted	bolt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
21	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | man | the pot of gold |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | past | man *not said here* | pot |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **fling** | past | man *not said here* | pot |  | the ground |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on ground=Destination |
| 4 | **bolt** | participle | man *not said here* |  |  |  | again | indoors, quickly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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