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description: Then she ran under the sea and neighed, and the sea opened and up ran forty-one foals; and they were such fine foals, every single horse was better than every other horse. Who acts: mare, sea, foals, single horse. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7, with its depen
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 36

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Then she ran under the sea and neighed, and the sea opened and up ran forty-one foals; and they were such fine foals, every single horse was better than every other horse.

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**Who acts:** mare, sea, foals, single horse · **What happens:** run, neigh, open, be · **To what, where:** sea, one foals, such fine foals

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mare, sea, foals, single horse), 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:pg62509:7:36
# text = Then she ran under the sea and neighed, and the sea opened and up ran forty-one foals; and they were such fine foals, every single horse was better than every other horse.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	neighed	neigh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	up	up	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	foals	foal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	foals	foal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
30	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	conj	_	_
34	than	than	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | mare |  |  | the sea | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sea=Trajectory |
| 2 | **neigh** | participle | mare *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **open** | past | the sea |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | past | the sea *not said here* | one foals |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | foals *= foal* | such fine foals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | every single horse |  |  |  |  | than every other horse; good *property* | 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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