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title: Away sped Sozh on the chase, through untrodden places, washing away… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Away sped Sozh on the chase, through untrodden places, washing away swamps, cutting out gullies, tearing up oaks by the roots. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 108

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Away sped Sozh on the chase, through untrodden places, washing away swamps, cutting out gullies, tearing up oaks by the roots.

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**What happens:** speed, wash away, cut out, tear up · **To what, where:** Sozh, chase, swamps, gullies, oaks

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg22373:38:108
# text = Away sped Sozh on the chase, through untrodden places, washing away swamps, cutting out gullies, tearing up oaks by the roots.
1	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Sozh	Sozh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	untrodden	untrodden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	swamps	swamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	gullies	gully	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	tearing	tear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speed** | past |  | Sozh |  | the chase |  | through untrodden places; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sozh=Theme on chase=Trajectory through place=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **wash away** | gerund |  | swamps |  |  |  | away *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swamp=Patient |
| 3 | **cut out** | gerund |  | gullies |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector gully=Eventuality |
| 4 | **tear up** | gerund |  | oaks |  |  |  | by the roots | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location oak=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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