Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 62

Touching the waters with a magic diamond taken from the snake, she sees them roll back "in a wall on either hand," between which she passes into a splendid garden.

Who acts: snake, children · What happens: touch, take, see, roll back, pass · To what, where: waters, magic diamond, children, wall, splendid garden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 sees	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 waters	det
3	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Touching	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 diamond	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 diamond	det
6	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 diamond	amod
7	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Touching	obl
8	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 diamond	acl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 snake	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 snake	det
11	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taken	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Touching	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sees	nsubj
14	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sees	obj
16	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sees	xcomp
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 roll	advmod
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 roll	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 wall	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 wall	det
21	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 roll	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 hand	case
23	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	24 hand	det
24	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 roll	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 passes	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 passes	punct
27	between	between	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 passes	obl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 passes	nsubj
30	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sees	conj
31	into	into	ADP	_	34 garden	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 garden	det
33	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 garden	amod
34	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 passes	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 sees	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	touch	gerund		the waters		with a magic diamond	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent water=Experiencer with diamond=Instrument
2	take	participle		a magic diamond not said here		from the snake	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from snake=Initial_Location
3	see	present	snake	children = child			tree rules
4	roll back	infinitive	children = child not said here		a wall	on either hand	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in wall=Source on hand=Trajectory
5	pass	present	snake		a splendid garden		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between which=Location

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.

Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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