--- title: Then the strong charger of Nastasia caught up the steed of Tremsin a… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the strong charger of Nastasia caught up the steed of Tremsin and tore off one of his hides, and began to worry it with his teeth and tear it to fragments as he ran. Who acts: strong charger, SEA. 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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29672:8:204 # text = Then the strong charger of Nastasia caught up the steed of Tremsin and tore off one of his hides, and began to worry it with his teeth and tear it to fragments as he ran. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 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 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 steed steed NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Tremsin Tremsin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 tore tore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 off off ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 hides hide NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 worry worry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 tear tear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 fragments fragment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch up** | past | the strong charger of Nastasia | the steed of Tremsin | | | then | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Theme | | 2 | **tore off** | past | the strong charger of Nastasia *not said here* | one of SEA's hides | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **begin** | past | the strong charger of Nastasia *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **worry** | to-infinitive | the strong charger of Nastasia *not said here* | charger | | | | with SEA's teeth | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer | | 5 | **tear** | infinitive | the strong charger of Nastasia *not said here* | charger | | | | to fragments *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient to fragment=Result | | 6 | **run** | past | SEA | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 203](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/203/) - next →: [sentence 205](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/205/) - ↑ back to [The Vampire and St Michael](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/)