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title: Over this bridge they galloped, and by the time they had done so, th… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Over this bridge they galloped, and by the time they had done so, the serpent reached the sea. Who acts: woods, serpent. 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 39

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Over this bridge they galloped, and by the time they had done so, the serpent reached the sea.

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**Who acts:** woods, serpent · **What happens:** gallop, do, reach · **To what, where:** bridge, time, sea

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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 (woods, serpent), 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:pg29672:5:39
# text = Over this bridge they galloped, and by the time they had done so, the serpent reached the sea.
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gallop** | past | woods *= wood* |  |  | this bridge |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bridge=Trajectory |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect | woods *= wood* | the time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Eventuality |
| 3 | **reach** | past | the serpent | the sea |  |  | time |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sea=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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