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title: Then Protius ran her down and Nedviga held her fast, and the little… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Protius ran her down and Nedviga held her fast, and the little Tsar milked her and let her go. Who acts: Protius, Nedviga, little Tsar, wolf. 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 69

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

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

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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, wolf), 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:pg29672:5:69
# text = Then Protius ran her down and Nedviga held her fast, and the little Tsar milked her and let her go.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Protius	Protius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	Nedviga	Nedviga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	milked	milk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | wolf |  |  | then |  | 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 | wolf |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Source |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | the little Tsar *not said here* | wolf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive | wolf *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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