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title: Off after it went the Tsar; every moment the stag seemed to be falte… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Off after it went the Tsar; every moment the stag seemed to be faltering, and yet the Tsar could never quite come up with it. Who acts: forest, moment, Tsar. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 27

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Off after it went the Tsar; every moment the stag seemed to be faltering, and yet the Tsar could never quite come up with it.

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**Who acts:** forest, moment, Tsar · **What happens:** go, seem, falter, not come up · **To what, where:** Tsar

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest, moment, Tsar), 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:pg29672:19:27
# text = Off after it went the Tsar; every moment the stag seemed to be faltering, and yet the Tsar could never quite come up with it.
1	Off	off	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	faltering	falter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | forest | the Tsar |  |  |  | off *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tsar=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past | every moment |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **falter** | to-infinitive · progressive | every moment *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **come up** | could | the Tsar |  |  |  | yet | with forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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