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title: This knight used to scent the animals which ran by, run after them a… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This knight used to scent the animals which ran by, run after them and catch them, not minding whether it were a rabbit, or fox, or a bear. Who acts: knight, animals, animal. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 113

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This knight used to scent the animals which ran by, run after them and catch them, not minding whether it were a rabbit, or fox, or a bear.

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**Who acts:** knight, animals, animal · **What happens:** use, run by, run, catch, not mind, be · **To what, where:** scent, meat, rabbit

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, animals, animal), 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:pg62509:38:114
# text = This knight used to scent the animals which ran by, run after them and catch them, not minding whether it were a rabbit, or fox, or a bear.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	minding	mind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
21	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle | this knight *not said here* | scent  the animals |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scent=Patient |
| 2 | **run by** | past | the animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | infinitive | this knight |  |  |  | after meat |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **catch** | infinitive | this knight *not said here* | meat |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **mind** | gerund | this knight *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is a** | past | animal | a rabbit or fox or a bear |  |  |  | fox *conj*; a bear *conj* | 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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