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title: Away went the sledge at a rattling pace, as if urged on by some one. — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Away went the sledge at a rattling pace, as if urged on by some one. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, 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 5, sentence 33

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Away went the sledge at a rattling pace, as if urged on by some one.

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**What happens:** go, urge on · **To what, where:** sledge

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg22373:46:33
# text = Away went the sledge at a rattling pace, as if urged on by some one.
1	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	rattling	rattling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	urged	urge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  | the sledge |  |  |  | at a rattling pace; away *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sledge=Theme |
| 2 | **urge on** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by some one | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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