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

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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).

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

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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.

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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:pg22373:42:11
# text = 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).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Doasens	Doasens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	Vana	Vana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
10	throws	throw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	obj	_	_
12	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	touches	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	Life	Life	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
24	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Livsens	Livsens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	Vand	Vand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	rouse	rouse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	57	57	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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