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title: So the Woodsprite took _vódka_ out of another bottle and gave the Ki… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Woodsprite took _vódka_ out of another bottle and gave the King’s son yet more drink, and his strength was increased sevenfold. Who acts: Woodsprite. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 149

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So the Woodsprite took \_vódka\_ out of another bottle and gave the King’s son yet more drink, and his strength was increased sevenfold.

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**Who acts:** Woodsprite · **What happens:** take, give, increase · **To what, where:** vódka, bottle, more drink, son, strength

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodsprite), 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:pg62509:17:149
# text = So the Woodsprite took _vódka_ out of another bottle and gave the King’s son yet more drink, and his strength was increased sevenfold.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Woodsprite	Woodsprite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	vódka	vódka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	iobj	_	_
18	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
27	sevenfold	sevenfold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the Woodsprite | vódka |  | another bottle |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent vódka=Theme out bottle=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **give** | past | the Woodsprite *not said here* | more drink | the King's son |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
| 3 | **increase** | past · passive |  | Woodsprite's strength |  |  |  | sevenfold *obj* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient NP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: subject=Patient sevenfold=Extent |

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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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