--- title: The eater-up (_ob'egedat'_ = to devour), the drinker-up (_pit'_ = to… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The eater-up (_ob'egedat'_ = to devour), the drinker-up (_pit'_ = to drink, _opivat'sya_, to drink oneself to death), and "Crackling Frost." A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/36/) [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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/) / 36 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 36 The eater-up (\_ob'egedat'\_ = to devour), the drinker-up (\_pit'\_ = to drink, \_opivat'sya\_, to drink oneself to death), and "Crackling Frost." **What happens:** devour, drink · **To what, where:** opivat'sya, oneself This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg22373:34:36 # text = The eater-up (_ob'egedat'_ = to devour), the drinker-up (_pit'_ = to drink, _opivat'sya_, to drink oneself to death), and "Crackling Frost." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 eater eater NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 _ _ PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ob'egedat ob'egedat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 _ _ SYM SYM _ 12 punct _ _ 10 = = SYM SYM _ 12 punct _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 devour devour VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 drinker drinker NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 _ _ PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 pit pit NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 _ _ SYM SYM _ 21 punct _ _ 24 = = SYM SYM _ 26 punct _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 drink drink VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 opivat'sya opivat'sya NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 drink drink VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 34 oneself oneself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 33 obj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 Crackling crackling NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 Frost frost NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **devour** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **drink** | to-infinitive | | opivat'sya | | | | Crackling Frost *obl* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opivat'sya=Patient | | 3 | **drink** | to-infinitive | | oneself | | | | to death | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oneself=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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/37/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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