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title: On returning sadly home he finds a horse standing by the road side,… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: On returning sadly home he finds a horse standing by the road side, with a couple of bags slung across its back. Who acts: moujik, horse. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 160

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On returning sadly home he finds a horse standing by the road side, with a couple of bags slung across its back.

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**Who acts:** moujik, horse · **What happens:** return, find, stand, sling · **To what, where:** horse, bags, back

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moujik, horse), 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:pg22373:36:160
# text = On returning sadly home he finds a horse standing by the road side, with a couple of bags slung across its back.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	slung	sling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	across	across	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | gerund | moujik *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home, sadly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | present | moujik | a horse |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | a horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the road side; with a couple of bags | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location |
| 4 | **sling** | participle |  | bags *not said here* |  | couple's back |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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