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title: From that time it has never ceased its wailing cry of "Drink, Drink,… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: From that time it has never ceased its wailing cry of "Drink, Drink," _Peet, Peet_. Who acts: wailing cry, earth. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 82

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From that time it has never ceased its wailing cry of "Drink, Drink," \_Peet, Peet\_.

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**Who acts:** wailing cry, earth · **What happens:** not cease, wail, drink, cry · **To what, where:** earth

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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 (wailing cry, earth), 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:pg22373:56:82
# text = From that time it has never ceased its wailing cry of "Drink, Drink," _Peet, Peet_.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wailing	wail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Peet	Peet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Peet	Peet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cease** | present · perfect · passive |  | earth |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wail** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drink** *in a quote* | infinitive | earth's wailing cry *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **drink** *in a quote* | infinitive | earth's wailing cry *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cry** |  | earth |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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