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title: Then they all drank a bumper together to seal the bargain, and after… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they all drank a bumper together to seal the bargain, and after that the forty-one bridegrooms and the forty-one brides laid them down to sleep side by side. Who acts: lots, forty bridegrooms. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 156

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Then they all drank a bumper together to seal the bargain, and after that the forty-one bridegrooms and the forty-one brides laid them down to sleep side by side.

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**Who acts:** lots, forty bridegrooms · **What happens:** drink, seal, lay down, sleep · **To what, where:** bumper, bargain, lots, side

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lots, forty bridegrooms), 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:pg29672:24:156
# text = Then they all drank a bumper together to seal the bargain, and after that the forty-one bridegrooms and the forty-one brides laid them down to sleep side by side.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
4	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bumper	bumper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	seal	seal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
14	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	_
20	bridegrooms	bridegroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	brides	bride	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
27	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	down	down	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
32	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | lots *= lot* | a bumper |  |  | then | together *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bumper=Patient |
| 2 | **seal** | to-infinitive | lots *= lot* *not said here* | the bargain |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Patient |
| 3 | **lay down** | past | the forty bridegrooms and the one brides | lots *= lot* |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result |
| 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | the forty bridegrooms and the one brides *not said here* | side |  |  |  | by side | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme |

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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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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