Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 11

The Death Water (_Doasens Vana_) throws all whom it touches into a magic sleep, from which only Life Water (_Livsens Vand_) can rouse them (p. 57).

Who acts: Death Water, mention, Life · What happens: throw, touch, rouse · To what, where: all, magic sleep, Waters

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Death Water, mention, Life), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Water	det
2	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Water	compound
3	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 throws	nsubj
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 Doasens	punct
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 Doasens	punct
6	Doasens	Doasens	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Water	appos
7	Vana	Vana	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Doasens	flat
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 Doasens	punct
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 Doasens	punct
10	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 throws	obj
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 touches	obj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 touches	nsubj
14	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 throws	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 sleep	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sleep	det
17	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sleep	amod
18	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 touches	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rouse	punct
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 rouse	obl
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 Life	advmod
23	Life	Life	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 rouse	nsubj
24	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Life	flat
25	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 Livsens	punct
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 Livsens	punct
27	Livsens	Livsens	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Life	appos
28	Vand	Vand	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Livsens	flat
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 Livsens	punct
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 Livsens	punct
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 rouse	aux
32	rouse	rouse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 touches	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 rouse	obj
34	(	(	PUNCT	_	35 p.	punct
35	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 rouse	obj
36	57	57	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	35 p.	flat
37	)	)	PUNCT	_	35 p.	punct
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 throws	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	throw	present	the Death Water	all		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme
2	touch	present	mention		a magic sleep	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme whom=Co-Theme
3	rouse	can	Life	Waters = water		tree rules

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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