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title: But the moment he had driven the mares afield, they cocked up their… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the moment he had driven the mares afield, they cocked up their tails, and away they tore across the meadows in all directions. Who acts: bade, food. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 207

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But the moment he had driven the mares afield, they cocked up their tails, and away they tore across the meadows in all directions.

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**Who acts:** bade, food · **What happens:** drive, cock up, tear · **To what, where:** mares, tails, meadows

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bade, food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg540:587`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:7:207
# text = But the moment he had driven the mares afield, they cocked up their tails, and away they tore across the meadows in all directions.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mares	mare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	afield	afield	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	cocked	cock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	tore	tear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	across	across	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past · perfect | bade | the mares |  |  |  | afield *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Theme |
| 2 | **cock up** | past | food | food's tails |  |  | moment |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
| 3 | **tear** | past | food |  |  | the meadows |  | in all directions; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across meadow=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:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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