--- title: Never fear, keep your seat bravely; a second will snap, keep your se… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Never fear, keep your seat bravely; a second will snap, keep your seat all the same; but when the third hoop snaps, instantly jump on to the horse's back and through the _duga_ (the wooden arch above its neck), and run away backwards. Who acts: you, second, third hoop. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, second, third hoop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:48:49 # text = Never fear, keep your seat bravely; a second will snap, keep your seat all the same; but when the third hoop snaps, instantly jump on to the horse's back and through the _duga_ (the wooden arch above its neck), and run away backwards. 1 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 fear fear VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 bravely bravely ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 snap snap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 19 det:predet _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 22 when when SCONJ WRB _ 26 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 25 amod _ _ 25 hoop hoop NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 snaps snap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 instantly instantly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 jump jump VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 30 on on ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 through through ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 duga duga NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 29 punct _ _ 42 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 arch arch NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 appos _ _ 46 above above ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 53 away away ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 54 backwards backwards ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **fear** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your seat | | | | bravely *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme | | 3 | **snap** | future | a second | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | infinitive | a second *not said here* | your seat | | | | same *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme | | 5 | **snap** | present | the third hoop | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **jump on** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | to the horse's back and the duga *result*; instantly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to back=Result | | 7 | **run away** | present | | | | | | away, backwards *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/48/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/48/50/) - ↑ back to [Magic and Witchcraft., part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/48/)