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title: He burst out by sheer force and galloped away at full speed, and nev… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He burst out by sheer force and galloped away at full speed, and never once looked round. Who acts: Bull. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 51

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He burst out by sheer force and galloped away at full speed, and never once looked round.

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**Who acts:** Bull · **What happens:** burst out, gallop away, not look round · **To what, where:** full speed

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bull), 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:pg62509:31:51
# text = He burst out by sheer force and galloped away at full speed, and never once looked round.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	sheer	sheer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	advmod	_	_
17	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
18	round	round	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst out** | past | Bull |  |  |  |  | by sheer force | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by force=Location |
| 2 | **gallop away** | past | Bull *not said here* |  |  | full speed |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **look round** | participle | Bull *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once, round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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