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title: He galloped at a full pace, put both spurs into her back and used a… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He galloped at a full pace, put both spurs into her back and used a scourge of three iron rods, and the army followed him, an unbelievable host. Who acts: Tsarévna, army. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 43

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He galloped at a full pace, put both spurs into her back and used a scourge of three iron rods, and the army followed him, an unbelievable host.

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**Who acts:** Tsarévna, army · **What happens:** gallop, put, use, follow · **To what, where:** spurs, back, scourge, Tsarévna

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarévna, army), 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:pg62509:8:43
# text = He galloped at a full pace, put both spurs into her back and used a scourge of three iron rods, and the army followed him, an unbelievable host.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	scourge	scourge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	rods	rod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	unbelievable	unbelievable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gallop** | past | Tsarévna |  |  |  |  | at a full pace | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pace=Trajectory |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | Tsarévna *not said here* | both spurs |  | mare's back |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent spur=Goal |
| 3 | **use** | past | Tsarévna *not said here* | a scourge of three iron rods |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scourge=Patient |
| 4 | **follow** | past | the army | Tsarévna |  |  |  | a unbelievable host *parataxis* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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