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title: From goodness knows whence appeared a horse, the earth quaking benea… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: From goodness knows whence appeared a horse, the earth quaking beneath it, a flame rushing from its ears and nostrils. Who acts: earth, flame. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 58

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From goodness knows whence appeared a horse, the earth quaking beneath it, a flame rushing from its ears and nostrils.

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**Who acts:** earth, flame · **What happens:** know, appear, quake, rush · **To what, where:** goodness, horse, earth, ears · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (earth, flame), 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:pg22373:45:58
# text = From goodness knows whence appeared a horse, the earth quaking beneath it, a flame rushing from its ears and nostrils.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
3	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	quaking	quake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
17	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present |  |  |  | goodness |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **appear** | past |  | a horse |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme |
| 3 | **quake** | gerund | the earth *not said here* |  |  | earth |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath it=Location |
| 4 | **rush** | gerund | a flame *not said here* |  |  | flame's ears and nostrils |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from ear=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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