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title: "Wherefore hast thou stumbled, O Steed! hast thou howled, O Hound! h… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Wherefore hast thou stumbled, O Steed! hast thou howled, O Hound! hast thou clamored, O Falcon?" Who acts: thou, Hound. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 72

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"Wherefore hast thou stumbled, O Steed! hast thou howled, O Hound! hast thou clamored, O Falcon?"

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**Who acts:** thou, Hound · **What happens:** have, stumble, howl, clamor · **To what, where:** Steed, Hound, thou · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, Hound), 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:pg22373:19:72
# text = "Wherefore hast thou stumbled, O Steed! hast thou howled, O Hound! hast thou clamored, O Falcon?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	punct	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stumbled	stumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	Steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
10	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
12	howled	howl	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
15	Hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
17	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	obj	_	_
19	clamored	clamor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Falcon	Falcon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | wherefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stumble** *in a quote* | participle | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  | Steed |  |  |  | O Falcon *obl* | tree rules |
| 4 | **howl** *in a quote* | past | thou | Hound |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hound=Theme |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Hound *not said here* | thou |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **clamor** *in a quote* | participle | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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