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title: Down fell the mace, and when it struck Ivan's forehead, the forehead… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Down fell the mace, and when it struck Ivan's forehead, the forehead bowed under it. Who acts: mace, forehead. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 61

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Down fell the mace, and when it struck Ivan's forehead, the forehead bowed under it.

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**Who acts:** mace, forehead · **What happens:** fall, strike, bow · **To what, where:** forehead, mace

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mace, forehead), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg22373:1021`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:19:61
# text = Down fell the mace, and when it struck Ivan's forehead, the forehead bowed under it.
1	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mace	mace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
10	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the mace |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **strike** | past | mace | Ivan's forehead |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Patient |
| 3 | **bow** | past | the forehead |  |  | mace |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under it=Location |

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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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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