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title: The mare carried him off over hills and dales and ravines, and did a… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The mare carried him off over hills and dales and ravines, and did all she could to try and throw her rider. Who acts: mare. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, 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 6, sentence 84

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The mare carried him off over hills and dales and ravines, and did all she could to try and throw her rider.

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**Who acts:** mare · **What happens:** carry off, do, try, throw · **To what, where:** Tprru, hills, all, rider

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mare), 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:pg22373:47:84
# text = The mare carried him off over hills and dales and ravines, and did all she could to try and throw her rider.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	dales	dale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	ravines	ravine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry off** | past | the mare | Tprru |  | hills and dales and ravines |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | the mare *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality |
| 3 | **try** | to-infinitive | the mare *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **throw** | infinitive | the mare *not said here* | mare's rider |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rider=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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