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title: So he set his horse to browse and himself mounted a thick grey oak t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he set his horse to browse and himself mounted a thick grey oak to avoid Svyatogór the knight. Who acts: Iván. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 4

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So he set his horse to browse and himself mounted a thick grey oak to avoid Svyatogór the knight.

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**Who acts:** Iván · **What happens:** set, browse, mount, avoid · **To what, where:** horse, thick grey oak, Svyatogór

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:16:4
# text = So he set his horse to browse and himself mounted a thick grey oak to avoid Svyatogór the knight.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	browse	browse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	nsubj	_	_
10	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
17	Svyatogór	Svyatogór	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | Iván | Iván's horse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **browse** | to-infinitive | Iván *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mount** | past | Iván | a thick grey oak |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=Patient |
| 4 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | Iván *not said here* | Svyatogór |  |  |  | the knight *obj* | tree rules |

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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:** «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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