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description: And so grievously did he punish the heroic steed that it could not hold out any longer, but cried aloud with a human voice-- Who acts: Katoma, steed. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 89

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And so grievously did he punish the heroic steed that it could not hold out any longer, but cried aloud with a human voice--

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**Who acts:** Katoma, steed · **What happens:** punish, not hold out, cry · **To what, where:** heroic steed

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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 (Katoma, steed), 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:pg22373:43:89
# text = And so grievously did he punish the heroic steed that it could not hold out any longer, but cried aloud with a human voice--
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	grievously	grievously	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	any	any	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **punish** | past · do-support | Katoma | the heroic steed |  |  |  | grievously *property* | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **hold out** | could | steed |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Katoma *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a human voice; aloud *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=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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