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title: Then one of the princesses brought sleeping-drugs in wine and asked… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then one of the princesses brought sleeping-drugs in wine and asked him to drink her health. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 155

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Then one of the princesses brought sleeping-drugs in wine and asked him to drink her health.

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**What happens:** bring, sleep, ask, drink · **To what, where:** drugs, wine, nobleman, health

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:13:155
# text = Then one of the princesses brought sleeping-drugs in wine and asked him to drink her health.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	advcl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
6	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	drugs	drug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of the princesses; one *advcl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sleep** | gerund |  | drugs |  | wine |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent drug=Value in wine=Location |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | nobleman |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **drink** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | Bábushka's health |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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