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title: As soon as ever he had driven the mares into the field, they all tur… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as ever he had driven the mares into the field, they all turned their tails and ran in the meadows so far that the Tsarévich could not trace them with his eyes: and thus they were all lost. Who acts: horse, food, Tsarévich. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 56

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As soon as ever he had driven the mares into the field, they all turned their tails and ran in the meadows so far that the Tsarévich could not trace them with his eyes: and thus they were all lost.

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**Who acts:** horse, food, Tsarévich · **What happens:** drive, turn, run, not trace, lose · **To what, where:** mares, field, tails, meadows, food

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, food, Tsarévich), 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:pg62509:24:56
# text = As soon as ever he had driven the mares into the field, they all turned their tails and ran in the meadows so far that the Tsarévich could not trace them with his eyes: and thus they were all lost.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mares	mare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
16	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	in	in	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	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	trace	trace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
41	all	all	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past · perfect | horse | the mares |  | the field | ever |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mare=Theme into field=Trajectory |
| 2 | **turn** | past | food | food's tails |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | past | food *not said here* |  |  | the meadows |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meadow=Trajectory |
| 4 | **not** **trace** | could | the Tsarévich | food |  |  |  | with horse's eyes | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **lose** | past · passive |  | food |  |  |  | all, thus *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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