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title: When the strong charger of Nastasia saw him and the hides he carried… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the strong charger of Nastasia saw him and the hides he carried on his back, it set off after him at full tilt, and the whole herd followed the strong charger of Nastasia. Who acts: strong charger, SEA, charger, whole herd. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St 
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 202

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When the strong charger of Nastasia saw him and the hides he carried on his back, it set off after him at full tilt, and the whole herd followed the strong charger of Nastasia.

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**Who acts:** strong charger, SEA, charger, whole herd · **What happens:** see, carry, set off, follow · **To what, where:** SEA, back, full tilt, strong charger

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strong charger, SEA, charger, whole herd), 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:pg29672:8:202
# text = When the strong charger of Nastasia saw him and the hides he carried on his back, it set off after him at full tilt, and the whole herd followed the strong charger of Nastasia.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	charger	charger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Nastasia	Nastasia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hides	hide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	tilt	tilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	charger	charger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Nastasia	Nastasia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the strong charger of Nastasia | SEA |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **carry** | past | SEA |  |  | SEA's back |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **set off** | past | charger |  |  | full tilt | after SEA |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | past | the whole herd | the strong charger of Nastasia |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charger=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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