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description: And this time they found a place wherein was water pure and cool, and around grew wondrous trees, whereon heavenly birds sat singing. Who acts: Apostles, heavenly birds. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, with its dependency 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 135

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And this time they found a place wherein was water pure and cool, and around grew wondrous trees, whereon heavenly birds sat singing.

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**Who acts:** Apostles, heavenly birds · **What happens:** find, be, grow, sit, sing · **To what, where:** place, wondrous trees

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (Apostles, heavenly birds), 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:pg22373:56:135
# text = And this time they found a place wherein was water pure and cool, and around grew wondrous trees, whereon heavenly birds sat singing.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	around	around	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	whereon	whereon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
22	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Apostles *= apostle* | a place |  |  | time |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past | Apostles *= apostle* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | pure, wherein *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Apostles *= apostle* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grow** | past | Apostles *= apostle* *not said here* | wondrous trees |  |  |  | around *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |
| 5 | **sit** | past | heavenly birds |  |  |  |  | whereon *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | heavenly birds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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