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title: Now this Tsarivna one day went down to the river to bathe, and plung… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now this Tsarivna one day went down to the river to bathe, and plunged into the water without first crossing herself, whereupon the Evil Spirit took possession of her. Who acts: Tsarivna day, Evil Spirit. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael, with its depend
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 40

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Now this Tsarivna one day went down to the river to bathe, and plunged into the water without first crossing herself, whereupon the Evil Spirit took possession of her.

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**Who acts:** Tsarivna day, Evil Spirit · **What happens:** go down, bathe, plunge, cross, take, possess · **To what, where:** water, Tsar, possession

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarivna day, Evil Spirit), 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:pg29672:8:40
# text = Now this Tsarivna one day went down to the river to bathe, and plunged into the water without first crossing herself, whereupon the Evil Spirit took possession of her.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
3	Tsarivna	Tsarivna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	advmod	_	_
21	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Evil	Evil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
29	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | this Tsarivna day |  |  |  | now | to the river; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **bathe** | to-infinitive | this Tsarivna day *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **plunge** | participle | this Tsarivna day *not said here* |  |  | the water |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **cross** | gerund | this Tsarivna day *not said here* | Tsar |  |  |  | first *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 5 | **take** | past | the Evil Spirit | possession of Tsar |  |  |  | whereupon *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme |
| 6 | **possess** |  |  | Tsar |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=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:** «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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