Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 6

When the lame man sprinkles his legs with the Healing Water, they become whole at once; "his legs are quite sound, only they don't move."

Who acts: lame man, waters, legs · What happens: sprinkle, become, be, not move · To what, where: legs, Healing Water, sound

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lame man, waters, legs), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 sprinkles	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sprinkles	nsubj
5	sprinkles	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 move	advcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 legs	nmod:poss
7	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sprinkles	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 Water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Water	det
10	Healing	Healing	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Water	compound
11	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sprinkles	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 become	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 become	nsubj
14	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Water	acl:relcl
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 become	xcomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 whole	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sound	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 sound	punct
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 legs	nmod:poss
21	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sound	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sound	cop
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	24 sound	advmod
24	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sprinkles	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 move	punct
26	only	only	ADV	_	30 move	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 move	nsubj
28	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 move	aux
29	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 move	advmod
30	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 move	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 move	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sprinkle	present	the lame man	man's legs	with the Healing Water	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent leg=Destination with water=Theme
2	become	present	waters = water	the Healing Water not said here	whole property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient water=Result
3	is a in a quote	present	man's legs	sound		tree rules
4	not move in a quote	present · do-support	waters = water			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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