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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 109

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The Vulture\[270\] told Dnieper of this, and he put on extra speed, tearing his way through high hills rather than turn on one side.

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**Who acts:** Vulture · **What happens:** tell, put, tear, turn · **To what, where:** Dnieper, extra speed, way, high hills, one side · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (Vulture), 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:pg22373:38:109
# text = The Vulture[270] told Dnieper of this, and he put on extra speed, tearing his way through high hills rather than turn on one side.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Vulture	Vulture	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	270	270	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Dnieper	Dnieper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	iobj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	tearing	tear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	26	cc	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Vulture |  | Dnieper of this |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dnieper=Recipient |
| 2 | **put** | past | Vulture |  |  | extra speed |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on speed=Destination |
| 3 | **tear** | gerund | Vulture *not said here* | Dnieper's way |  | high hills |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location way=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** | infinitive | Vulture *not said here* |  |  | one side |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory |

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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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