--- title: The Prince's horse awoke him; up he jumped in a moment, and set off… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The Prince's horse awoke him; up he jumped in a moment, and set off again in pursuit, caught up the Beast, and again began fighting with it. Who acts: horse, Prince, pursuit. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/61/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/) / 61 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 61 The Prince's horse awoke him; up he jumped in a moment, and set off again in pursuit, caught up the Beast, and again began fighting with it. **Who acts:** horse, Prince, pursuit · **What happens:** awake, jump, set off, catch up, begin, fight · **To what, where:** Prince, pursuit, Beast This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (horse, Prince, pursuit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:20:61 # text = The Prince's horse awoke him; up he jumped in a moment, and set off again in pursuit, caught up the Beast, and again began fighting with it. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 awoke awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 up up ADP IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 17 off off ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 again again ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 pursuit pursuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Beast Beast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 again again ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 30 fighting fight VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 xcomp _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **awake** | past | the Prince's horse | Prince | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | | 2 | **jump** | past | Prince | | | | moment | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **set off** | infinitive | Prince *not said here* | | | pursuit | again | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **catch up** | participle | pursuit *not said here* | the Beast | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme | | 5 | **begin** | past | Prince *not said here* | | | | again | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **fight** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | | | | | with beast | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with it=Co-Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/62/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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