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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 115

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The Tartars, during their inroads, used to burn towns and villages, kill old folks and infants, and carry off young people.

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**Who acts:** Tartars · **What happens:** use, burn, kill, carry off · **To what, where:** inroads, towns, old folks, young people

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tartars), 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:pg22373:35:115
# text = The Tartars, during their inroads, used to burn towns and villages, kill old folks and infants, and carry off young people.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tartars	Tartar	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	during	during	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	inroads	inroad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	infants	infant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle |  | Tartars's inroads *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **burn** | to-infinitive |  | towns and villages |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent town=Theme |
| 3 | **kill** | present | the Tartars during Tartars's inroads | old folks and infants |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Theme |
| 4 | **carry off** | infinitive | the Tartars during Tartars's inroads *not said here* | young people |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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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