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title: Then he caught him up a second time, and tore off another hide, and… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he caught him up a second time, and tore off another hide, and began to worry that in like manner till he had torn it also to shreds; and thus he ran after Tremsin's steed for seventy miles, till he had torn off all the hides, and worried them to bits. Who acts: SEA. A sentence of «Cossack Fair
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 205

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Then he caught him up a second time, and tore off another hide, and began to worry that in like manner till he had torn it also to shreds; and thus he ran after Tremsin's steed for seventy miles, till he had torn off all the hides, and worried them to bits.

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**Who acts:** SEA · **What happens:** catch up, tore off, begin, worry, tear, run · **To what, where:** steed, hide, manner, hides

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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 (SEA), 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:pg29672:8:205
# text = Then he caught him up a second time, and tore off another hide, and began to worry that in like manner till he had torn it also to shreds; and thus he ran after Tremsin's steed for seventy miles, till he had torn off all the hides, and worried them to bits.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	worry	worry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	_
24	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	also	also	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	shreds	shred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
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	3	parataxis	_	_
37	after	after	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	's	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	conj	_	_
49	off	off	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	52	det:predet	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	hides	hide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	worried	worry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
56	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	_
57	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch up** | past | SEA | steed |  |  | then; time |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **tore off** | past | SEA *not said here* | another hide |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** | past | SEA *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **worry** | to-infinitive | SEA *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **tear** | past · perfect | SEA | manner |  |  |  | to shreds *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient to shred=Result |
| 6 | **run** | past | SEA |  |  |  | after Tremsin's steed | for seventy miles; thus *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for mile=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **tear off** | past · perfect | SEA | all hides |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location hide=Theme |
| 8 | **worry** | past | SEA *not said here* | hides *= hide* |  |  |  | to bits | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |

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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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