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description: The Soldier got into the car and set off: at first he drove slowly, but as soon as he was out of sight he let the horse go full split. Who acts: Soldier, horse. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, with its dependency tree an
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 55

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The Soldier got into the car and set off: at first he drove slowly, but as soon as he was out of sight he let the horse go full split.

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**Who acts:** Soldier, horse · **What happens:** get, set off, drive, be, let, go · **To what, where:** car, sight, horse, full split

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soldier, horse), 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:pg22373:48:55
# text = The Soldier got into the car and set off: at first he drove slowly, but as soon as he was out of sight he let the horse go full split.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	advcl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
31	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	split	split	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the Soldier |  |  | the car |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into car=Destination |
| 2 | **set off** | infinitive | the Soldier *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drive** | past | Soldier |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | Soldier |  |  | sight |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** | past | Soldier | the horse |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive | the horse *not said here* | full split |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location split=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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