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description: And the patriarch came, walking nimbly needing neither guide nor crutch. Who acts: patriarch. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 50

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And the patriarch came, walking nimbly needing neither guide nor crutch.

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**Who acts:** patriarch · **What happens:** come, walk, need · **To what, where:** guide

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (patriarch), 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:pg22373:56:50
# text = And the patriarch came, walking nimbly needing neither guide nor crutch.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	patriarch	patriarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	needing	need	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
9	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	12	cc	_	_
12	crutch	crutch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the patriarch |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund | the patriarch *not said here* |  |  |  |  | nimbly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **need** | gerund | the patriarch *not said here* | neither guide nor crutch |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot guide=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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