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description: And his two sisters, who had continued running from him during his pursuit, separated in different directions and fled to the bottom of the sea. Who acts: trace. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, with its dependency tr
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 142

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And his two sisters, who had continued running from him during his pursuit, separated in different directions and fled to the bottom of the sea.

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**Who acts:** trace · **What happens:** continue, run, separate, flee, pursue · **To what, where:** two sisters, different directions, bottom

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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 (trace), 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:pg22373:38:142
# text = And his two sisters, who had continued running from him during his pursuit, separated in different directions and fled to the bottom of the sea.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past · perfect · passive |  | trace's two sisters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  | during trace's pursuit | from trace | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from he=Trajectory |
| 3 | **separate** | participle |  |  |  | different directions |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **flee** | past |  |  |  | the bottom of the sea |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **pursue** |  | trace |  |  |  |  |  | nom pursuit «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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