Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 64
In the midst of her slumbering guards sleeps the Queen on a couch of down, the healing water flowing from her hands and feet.
Who acts: Queen, healing water · What happens: slumber, sleep, flow · To what, where: midst, hands
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 (Queen, healing water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:3360): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 midst | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 midst | det |
| 3 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sleeps | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 guards | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 guards | nmod:poss |
| 6 | slumbering | slumber | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 guards | amod |
| 7 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 midst | nmod |
| 8 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Queen | det |
| 10 | Queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sleeps | nsubj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 couch | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 couch | det |
| 13 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sleeps | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 down | case |
| 15 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 couch | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flowing | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 water | det |
| 18 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 water | compound |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flowing | nsubj |
| 20 | flowing | flow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sleeps | advcl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 hands | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hands | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 flowing | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 feet | cc |
| 25 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 hands | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sleeps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slumber | gerund | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | sleep | present | the Queen | the midst of castle's slumbering guards | on a couch of down | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in midst=Location | |||
| 3 | flow | gerund | the healing water | castle's hands and feet | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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