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title: Meanwhile Prince Ivan was running and bounding behind the carriage. — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile Prince Ivan was running and bounding behind the carriage. Who acts: Prince Ivan. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 137

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Meanwhile Prince Ivan was running and bounding behind the carriage.

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**Who acts:** Prince Ivan · **What happens:** run, bound · **To what, where:** carriage

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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 (Prince Ivan), 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:pg22373:43:137
# text = Meanwhile Prince Ivan was running and bounding behind the carriage.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bounding	bound	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past · progressive | Prince Ivan |  |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bound** | gerund | Prince Ivan *not said here* |  |  | the carriage |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind carriage=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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