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description: And presently it arrives--its wings stretching afar, while along the ground trail its moustaches [_usui_, whence its name]. Who acts: monster, wings. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 96

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And presently it arrives--its wings stretching afar, while along the ground trail its moustaches \[\_usui\_, whence its name\].

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**Who acts:** monster, wings · **What happens:** arrive, stretch, trail, name · **To what, where:** usui, moustaches, ground

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (monster, wings), 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:pg22373:21:96
# text = And presently it arrives--its wings stretching afar, while along the ground trail its moustaches [_usui_, whence its name].
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	arrives	arrive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	along	along	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
15	trail	trail	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	moustaches	moustache	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	usui	usui	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	conj	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | present | monster |  |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stretch** | gerund | monster's wings | usui |  |  |  | afar *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent usui=Patient |
| 3 | **trail** | infinitive |  | monster's moustaches |  | the ground |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent moustache=Theme along ground=Trajectory |
| 4 | **name** |  | monster |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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