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

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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.

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**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

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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.

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**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:pg22373:28:62
# text = 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.
1	Touching	touch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
27	between	between	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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