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title: And when he had drunk the third, he recovered all his former strengt… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when he had drunk the third, he recovered all his former strength, broke all his chains, shattered them all, all the twelve chains. Who acts: Iván. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 86

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And when he had drunk the third, he recovered all his former strength, broke all his chains, shattered them all, all the twelve chains.

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**Who acts:** Iván · **What happens:** drink, recover, break, shatter · **To what, where:** third, former strength, chains

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván), 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:pg62509:23:86
# text = And when he had drunk the third, he recovered all his former strength, broke all his chains, shattered them all, all the twelve chains.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	drunk	drink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	recovered	recover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	shattered	shatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past · perfect | Iván | the third |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Patient |
| 2 | **recover** | past | Iván | Iván's former strength |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | past | Iván *not said here* | Iván's chains |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chain=Patient |
| 4 | **shatter** | past | Iván *not said here* | chains *= chain* |  |  |  | all twelve chains *obl* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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