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title: He stood between his horse’s feet and, turning round to the other si… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He stood between his horse’s feet and, turning round to the other side from there, smote Túgarin with his steel knife under his right breast, and threw Túgarin from his good horse. Who acts: ALYÓSHA. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree an
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 69

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He stood between his horse’s feet and, turning round to the other side from there, smote Túgarin with his steel knife under his right breast, and threw Túgarin from his good horse.

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**Who acts:** ALYÓSHA · **What happens:** stand, turn round, smote, throw · **To what, where:** feet, other side, Túgarin

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ALYÓSHA), 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:pg62509:20:69
# text = He stood between his horse’s feet and, turning round to the other side from there, smote Túgarin with his steel knife under his right breast, and threw Túgarin from his good horse.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
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	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	round	round	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	smote	smote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
20	Túgarin	Túgarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	under	under	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
32	Túgarin	Túgarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | ALYÓSHA *= alyósha* |  |  | ALYÓSHA's horse's feet |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between foot=Location |
| 2 | **turn round** | gerund | ALYÓSHA *= alyósha* *not said here* |  |  | the other side |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to side=Trajectory |
| 3 | **smote** | infinitive | ALYÓSHA *= alyósha* *not said here* | Túgarin |  |  |  | with ALYÓSHA's steel knife under ALYÓSHA's right breast | tree rules |
| 4 | **throw** | past |  | Túgarin |  |  |  | from ALYÓSHA's good horse | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent túgarin=Theme from horse=Initial\_Location |

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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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