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title: And when she heard the horseman enter she sprang forth, exclaiming: — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when she heard the horseman enter she sprang forth, exclaiming: Who acts: wife, horseman. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, 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 5, sentence 40

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And when she heard the horseman enter she sprang forth, exclaiming:

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**Who acts:** wife, horseman · **What happens:** hear, enter, sprang, exclaim · **To what, where:** horseman, wife

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, horseman), 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:pg22373:60:40
# text = And when she heard the horseman enter she sprang forth, exclaiming:
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	horseman	horseman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	sprang	sprang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	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 | **hear** | past | wife | the horseman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **enter** | infinitive | the horseman *not said here* | wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sprang** | infinitive | the horseman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | gerund | the horseman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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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