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title: Here the last hoop snapped: on to the horse jumped the Soldier, and… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Here the last hoop snapped: on to the horse jumped the Soldier, and through the _duga_, and then set off running backwards. Who acts: last hoop. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 63

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Here the last hoop snapped: on to the horse jumped the Soldier, and through the \_duga\_, and then set off running backwards.

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**Who acts:** last hoop · **What happens:** snap, jump, set off, run · **To what, where:** Soldier

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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 (last hoop), 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:pg22373:48:63
# text = Here the last hoop snapped: on to the horse jumped the Soldier, and through the _duga_, and then set off running backwards.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hoop	hoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	snapped	snap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	duga	duga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snap** | past | the last hoop |  |  | here |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **jump** | past | the last hoop *not said here* | the Soldier |  |  |  | on the horse | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme on horse=Trajectory |
| 3 | **set off** | infinitive | the last hoop *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | gerund | the last hoop *not said here* |  |  |  |  | backwards *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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