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title: Then he ran back as quickly as he could, paid the silver rouble to t… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he ran back as quickly as he could, paid the silver rouble to the rich man, and got the holy image. Who acts: man. 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 31

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Then he ran back as quickly as he could, paid the silver rouble to the rich man, and got the holy image.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** run back, pay, get · **To what, where:** silver rouble, holy image

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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 (man), 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:pg29672:8:31
# text = Then he ran back as quickly as he could, paid the silver rouble to the rich man, and got the holy image.
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	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	rouble	rouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run back** | past | man |  |  |  | then | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** | past | man *not said here* | the silver rouble |  |  |  | to the rich man | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rouble=Asset |
| 3 | **get** | past | man *not said here* | the holy image |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer image=Stimulus |

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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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