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title: He sat on the horse, bent over sideways; and he flew like your hawk… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He sat on the horse, bent over sideways; and he flew like your hawk over there, straight to the palace of Eléna the Fair Tsarévna. Who acts: tale. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 124

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He sat on the horse, bent over sideways; and he flew like your hawk over there, straight to the palace of Eléna the Fair Tsarévna.

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**Who acts:** tale · **What happens:** sit, bend, fly · **To what, where:** horse

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tale), 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:pg62509:26:124
# text = He sat on the horse, bent over sideways; and he flew like your hawk over there, straight to the palace of Eléna the Fair Tsarévna.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Eléna	Eléna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | tale |  |  |  |  | on the horse | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horse=Location |
| 2 | **bend** | participle |  | the horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over sideways=Location |
| 3 | **fly** | past | tale |  |  |  |  | like your hawk; the palace of Eléna *conj* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over there=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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