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title: In the midst of her slumbering guards sleeps the Queen on a couch of… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, with its dependency tree and t
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 64

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In the midst of her slumbering guards sleeps the Queen on a couch of down, the healing water flowing from her hands and feet.

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**Who acts:** Queen, healing water · **What happens:** slumber, sleep, flow · **To what, where:** midst, hands

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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 (Queen, healing water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:42:64
# text = In the midst of her slumbering guards sleeps the Queen on a couch of down, the healing water flowing from her hands and feet.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	slumbering	slumber	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	amod	_	_
7	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** 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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