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description: After gazing at these seeming corpses, in one of which he recognizes his first love, he approaches a horse which is grazing beside a lake. Who acts: husband, horse. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, with its dependency 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 124

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After gazing at these seeming corpses, in one of which he recognizes his first love, he approaches a horse which is grazing beside a lake.

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**Who acts:** husband, horse · **What happens:** gaze, seem, recognize, approach, graze, love · **To what, where:** first love, horse, lake

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, horse), 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:pg22373:23:124
# text = After gazing at these seeming corpses, in one of which he recognizes his first love, he approaches a horse which is grazing beside a lake.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	seeming	seem	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	corpses	corpse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	recognizes	recognize	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	approaches	approach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	grazing	graze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** | gerund | husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at this seeming corpses in one | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at corpse=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **recognize** | present | husband | husband's first love |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer love=Stimulus |
| 4 | **approach** | present | husband | a horse |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 5 | **graze** | present · progressive | a horse |  |  | a lake |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **love** |  | husband |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling 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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