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title: She thought to herself that the horse would prance him up against th… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She thought to herself that the horse would prance him up against the winds, and that she could already see his bones scattered in the open fields. Who acts: Tsarévna, horse, bones. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 72

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She thought to herself that the horse would prance him up against the winds, and that she could already see his bones scattered in the open fields.

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**Who acts:** Tsarévna, horse, bones · **What happens:** think, prance up, see, scatter · **To what, where:** Tsarévna, Iván, winds, bones, open fields · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Tsarévna, horse, bones), 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:pg62509:38:73
# text = She thought to herself that the horse would prance him up against the winds, and that she could already see his bones scattered in the open fields.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	prance	prance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	against	against	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	already	already	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	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 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Tsarévna |  | Tsarévna |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **prance up** | would | the horse | Iván |  | the winds |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme against wind=Trajectory |
| 3 | **see** | could | Tsarévna | Iván's bones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **scatter** | participle | Iván's bones *not said here* |  |  | the open fields |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in field=Destination |

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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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