--- title: Says the second, "I will become a spring--on the water will float tw… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Says the second, "I will become a spring--on the water will float two cups, the one golden, the other of silver; whoever touches one of the cups, him will I drown." Who acts: I, water, whoever. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/) / 16 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 16 Says the second, "I will become a spring--on the water will float two cups, the one golden, the other of silver; whoever touches one of the cups, him will I drown." **Who acts:** I, water, whoever · **What happens:** say, become, float, touch, drown · **To what, where:** second, spring, two cups, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, water, whoever), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:20:16 # text = Says the second, "I will become a spring--on the water will float two cups, the one golden, the other of silver; whoever touches one of the cups, him will I drown." 1 Says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 -- -- PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 on on SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 float float VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 17 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 cups cup NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 whoever whoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 touches touch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 cups cup NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 drown drown VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | the second | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **become** *in a quote* | future | I | a spring | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **float** *in a quote* | future | the water | two cups | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme | | 4 | **touch** *in a quote* | present | whoever | one of the cups | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme | | 5 | **drown** *in a quote* | future | water | | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/17/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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