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title: A horse and some geese vainly attempt their rescue; a bull-calf succ… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: A horse and some geese vainly attempt their rescue; a bull-calf succeeds, as in the former case. Who acts: horse, bull calf. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, 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 16, sentence 46

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A horse and some geese vainly attempt their rescue; a bull-calf succeeds, as in the former case.

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**Who acts:** horse, bull calf · **What happens:** attempt, succeed, rescue · **To what, where:** rescue, former case

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, bull calf), 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:pg22373:34:46
# text = A horse and some geese vainly attempt their rescue; a bull-calf succeeds, as in the former case.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	vainly	vainly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	attempt	attempt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	succeeds	succeed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attempt** | present | a horse and some geese | horse's rescue |  |  |  | vainly *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rescue=Eventuality |
| 2 | **succeed** | present | a bull calf | the former case |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rescue** |  | horse |  |  |  |  |  | nom rescue «act 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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