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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 65

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Once more he turned, once more he wheeled, then shot past the eye like a streak of fire, took an accurate aim, and kissed\[335\] the fair Helena right on the lips!

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**Who acts:** Vanya · **What happens:** turn, wheel, shoot, take, kiss · **To what, where:** accurate aim, 335, lips

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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 (Vanya), 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:pg22373:45:65
# text = Once more he turned, once more he wheeled, then shot past the eye like a streak of fire, took an accurate aim, and kissed[335] the fair Helena right on the lips!
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wheeled	wheel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	past	past	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	streak	streak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	accurate	accurate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	aim	aim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	335	335	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Helena	Helena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
35	right	right	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | Vanya |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wheel** | past | Vanya |  |  |  |  |  | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shoot** | past |  |  |  |  | then | past the eye; like a streak of fire | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | past |  | a accurate aim |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme |
| 5 | **kiss** | past | Vanya *not said here* | 335 |  | the lips |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=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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