--- title: But when the time comes for him to cross back again, the river takes… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: But when the time comes for him to cross back again, the river takes its revenge, and drowns him in its depths, saying the while: "It is not I, but thy own boasting that drowns thee." Who acts: time, youth, river, own boasting. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Fol --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/39/25/) [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 III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/39/) / 25 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 25 But when the time comes for him to cross back again, the river takes its revenge, and drowns him in its depths, saying the while: "It is not I, but thy own boasting that drowns thee." **Who acts:** time, youth, river, own boasting · **What happens:** come, cross, take, drown, say, not be · **To what, where:** revenge, youth, depths, river, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, youth, river, own boasting), 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:pg22373:39:25 # text = But when the time comes for him to cross back again, the river takes its revenge, and drowns him in its depths, saying the while: "It is not I, but thy own boasting that drowns thee." 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 6 for for SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 10 back back ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 again again ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 revenge revenge NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 drowns drown VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 depths depth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 but but CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 boasting boasting NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 40 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 41 drowns drown VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 42 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | the time | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **cross** | to-infinitive | youth | | | | again | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **take** | present | the river | river's revenge | | | | thy own boasting *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Theme | | 4 | **drown** | present | the river *not said here* | youth | | river's depths | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the river *not said here* | | | | while | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | river | the river *= river* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **drown** *in a quote* | present | thy own boasting | thee | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | | 8 | **revenge** | | river | | | | | | nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/39/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/39/26/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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