--- title: Koshchei drank it up and asked for a third, and when he had swallowe… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Koshchei drank it up and asked for a third, and when he had swallowed the third bucketful, he regained his former strength, gave his chains a shake, and broke all twelve at once. Who acts: Koshchei. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOG --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/58/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/) / 58 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 58 Koshchei drank it up and asked for a third, and when he had swallowed the third bucketful, he regained his former strength, gave his chains a shake, and broke all twelve at once. **Who acts:** Koshchei · **What happens:** drink up, ask, swallow, regain, give, break · **To what, where:** bucketful, Koshchei, former strength, chains, twelve This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Koshchei), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:22:58 # text = Koshchei drank it up and asked for a third, and when he had swallowed the third bucketful, he regained his former strength, gave his chains a shake, and broke all twelve at once. 1 Koshchei Koshchei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 drank drink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 third third NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 swallowed swallow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 advcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 18 amod _ _ 18 bucketful bucketful NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 regained regain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 chains chain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 shake shake NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 34 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ _ 35 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 obj _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drink up** | past | Koshchei | bucketful | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Koshchei *not said here* | | | | | for a third | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **swallow** | past · perfect · passive | | Koshchei | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **regain** | past | Koshchei | Koshchei's former strength | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme | | 5 | **give** | past | Koshchei *not said here* | Koshchei's chains | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent chain=Recipient shake=Theme | | 6 | **break** | past | | all twelve | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer twelve=Patient | 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. **Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/59/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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