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title: Afterwards they flew beyond thrice nine lands: long, long did they f… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Afterwards they flew beyond thrice nine lands: long, long did they fly. Who acts: wings. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, 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 8, sentence 106

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Afterwards they flew beyond thrice nine lands: long, long did they fly.

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**Who acts:** wings · **What happens:** fly · **To what, where:** thrice nine lands

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg22373:26:106
# text = Afterwards they flew beyond thrice nine lands: long, long did they fly.
1	Afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	thrice	thrice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | wings *= wing* |  |  | thrice nine lands |  | afterwards *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beyond land=Location |
| 2 | **fly** | past · do-support | wings *= wing* | thrice nine lands *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location land=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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