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title: As Koshchei the Deathless was returning home, his good steed stumble… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: As Koshchei the Deathless was returning home, his good steed stumbled beneath him. Who acts: Deathless. 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 120

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As Koshchei the Deathless was returning home, his good steed stumbled beneath him.

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**Who acts:** Deathless · **What happens:** return, stumble · **To what, where:** good steed

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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 (Deathless), 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:pg22373:22:120
# text = As Koshchei the Deathless was returning home, his good steed stumbled beneath him.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Deathless	Deathless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	stumbled	stumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past · progressive | the Deathless | Deathless's good steed |  |  |  | as Koshchei; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stumble** | participle |  | Deathless's good steed *not said here* |  |  |  | beneath Deathless | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath he=Trajectory |

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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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