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title: Protius ran her down, Nedviga held her fast, and the little Tsar mil… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Protius ran her down, Nedviga held her fast, and the little Tsar milked her and let her go. Who acts: Protius, Nedviga, little Tsar, vixen. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 125

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Protius ran her down, Nedviga held her fast, and the little Tsar milked her and let her go.

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**Who acts:** Protius, Nedviga, little Tsar, vixen · **What happens:** run down, hold, milk, let, go · **To what, where:** vixen

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Protius, Nedviga, little Tsar, vixen), 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:pg29672:5:125
# text = Protius ran her down, Nedviga held her fast, and the little Tsar milked her and let her go.
1	Protius	Protius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Nedviga	Nedviga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	milked	milk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run down** | past | Protius | vixen |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Agent |
| 2 | **hold** | past | Nedviga |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **milk** | past | the little Tsar | vixen |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Source |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | the little Tsar *not said here* | vixen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive | vixen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:** «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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