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title: Dropping right into his cellar, Vikhor ran to the tub which stood on… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dropping right into his cellar, Vikhor ran to the tub which stood on the right, and began drinking the Water of Weakness. Who acts: Vikhor, tub. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 116

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Dropping right into his cellar, Vikhor ran to the tub which stood on the right, and began drinking the Water of Weakness.

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**Who acts:** Vikhor, tub · **What happens:** drop, run, stand, begin, drink · **To what, where:** cellar, tub, right, Water

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (Vikhor, tub), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg22373:42:116
# text = Dropping right into his cellar, Vikhor ran to the tub which stood on the right, and began drinking the Water of Weakness.
1	Dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	right	right	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	Vikhor	Vikhor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Weakness	Weakness	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | gerund | Vikhor *not said here* | Vikhor's cellar |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cellar=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | past | Vikhor |  |  | the tub |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tub=Destination |
| 3 | **stand** | past | the tub |  |  | the right |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on right=Location |
| 4 | **begin** | past | Vikhor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **drink** | gerund | Vikhor *not said here* | the Water of Weakness |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

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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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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