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description: They let the flash pass unheeded, but they take the precaution of crossing themselves when the roar follows. Who acts: peasants, flash, precaution, roar. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, with its dependency tree and t
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 130

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They let the flash pass unheeded, but they take the precaution of crossing themselves when the roar follows.

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**Who acts:** peasants, flash, precaution, roar · **What happens:** let, pass, take, cross, follow · **To what, where:** flash, precaution, peasants

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasants, flash, precaution, roar), 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:pg22373:33:130
# text = They let the flash pass unheeded, but they take the precaution of crossing themselves when the roar follows.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	unheeded	unheeded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	precaution	precaution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | peasants *= peasant* | the flash |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | infinitive | the flash *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unheeded *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | present | peasants *= peasant* | the precaution |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precaution=Theme |
| 4 | **cross** | gerund | the precaution *not said here* | peasants *= peasant* |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 5 | **follow** | present | the roar |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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