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title: Koshchei galloped off and caught up Prince Ivan. — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Koshchei galloped off and caught up Prince Ivan. Who acts: Koshchei. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, 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 4, sentence 107

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Koshchei galloped off and caught up Prince Ivan.

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**Who acts:** Koshchei · **What happens:** gallop off, catch up · **To what, where:** Prince Ivan

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Koshchei), 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:pg22373:22:107
# text = Koshchei galloped off and caught up Prince Ivan.
1	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **gallop off** | past | Koshchei |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **catch up** | participle | Koshchei *not said here* | Prince Ivan |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ivan=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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