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description: Those youths arise, stick the heads of their brides on iron spikes all round the house, and gallop away. Who acts: youths. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, 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 11, sentence 99

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Those youths arise, stick the heads of their brides on iron spikes all round the house, and gallop away.

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**Who acts:** youths · **What happens:** arise, stick, gallop away · **To what, where:** heads

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youths), 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:pg22373:29:99
# text = Those youths arise, stick the heads of their brides on iron spikes all round the house, and gallop away.
1	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arise	arise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	stick	stick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	brides	bride	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	spikes	spike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	round	round	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	gallop	gallop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | present | that youths |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stick** | present | that youths *not said here* | the heads of eggs's brides on iron spikes round the house |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 3 | **gallop away** | infinitive | that youths *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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