--- title: Then the Lord waxed wroth and forbade it and its posterity ever to a… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Lord waxed wroth and forbade it and its posterity ever to approach a sea or stream, allowing it to quench its thirst with that water only which remains in hollows and among stones after rain. Who acts: Lord, posterity, earth. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/81/) [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 VI. LEGENDS, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/) / 81 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 81 Then the Lord waxed wroth and forbade it and its posterity ever to approach a sea or stream, allowing it to quench its thirst with that water only which remains in hollows and among stones after rain. **Who acts:** Lord, posterity, earth · **What happens:** wax, forbid, approach, allow, quench, remain · **To what, where:** earth, sea, thirst, hollows This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (Lord, posterity, earth), 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:pg22373:56:81 # text = Then the Lord waxed wroth and forbade it and its posterity ever to approach a sea or stream, allowing it to quench its thirst with that water only which remains in hollows and among stones after rain. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 waxed wax VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 wroth wroth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 forbade forbid VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 posterity posterity NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 14 advmod _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 approach approach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 allowing allow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 quench quench VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 thirst thirst NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 29 only only ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 remains remain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 hollows hollow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 among among ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 37 after after ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wax** | past | the Lord | | | | then | wroth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **forbid** | past | the Lord *not said here* | earth | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme | | 3 | **approach** | to-infinitive | earth's posterity | a sea or stream | | | ever | | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme | | 4 | **allow** | gerund | earth's posterity *not said here* | earth | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer it=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **quench** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | earth *not said here* | earth's thirst | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer | | 6 | **remain** | present | | | | hollows and stones | after rain | with that water | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hollow=Location | | 7 | **thirst** | | earth | | | | | | nom thirst «state intransitive»: 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 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/82/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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