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description: The twelve chains were taken off the horse, it began to move with an even heavy pace, while the sweat poured off it just like hail. Who acts: hand. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 105

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The twelve chains were taken off the horse, it began to move with an even heavy pace, while the sweat poured off it just like hail.

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**Who acts:** hand · **What happens:** take off, begin, move, pour · **To what, where:** twelve chains, sweat, hand

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (hand), 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:pg22373:43:105
# text = The twelve chains were taken off the horse, it began to move with an even heavy pace, while the sweat poured off it just like hail.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
23	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	just	just	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take off** | past · passive |  | the twelve chains |  |  |  | off the horse | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | past | hand |  |  |  |  | like hail | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **move** | to-infinitive | hand *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a heavy pace | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pour** | participle |  | the sweat *not said here* |  | hand |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off it=Location |

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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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