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title: Then Tremsin threw a halter over him, mounted, and drove the whole h… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Tremsin threw a halter over him, mounted, and drove the whole herd to the thrice-lovely Nastasia. Who acts: Tremsin. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 208

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Then Tremsin threw a halter over him, mounted, and drove the whole herd to the thrice-lovely Nastasia.

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**Who acts:** Tremsin · **What happens:** throw, mount, drive · **To what, where:** halter, whole herd, lovely Nastasia

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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 (Tremsin), 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:pg29672:8:208
# text = Then Tremsin threw a halter over him, mounted, and drove the whole herd to the thrice-lovely Nastasia.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	halter	halter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	thrice	thrice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Nastasia	Nastasia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	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 | **throw** | past | Tremsin | a halter |  |  | then | over SEA | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent halter=Theme over he=Destination |
| 2 | **mount** | past | Tremsin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drive** | past | Tremsin *not said here* | the whole herd |  | the lovely Nastasia |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herd=Theme to nastasia=Trajectory |

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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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