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title: The Raven sprinkled them with the Water of Death—the pieces joined t… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Raven sprinkled them with the Water of Death—the pieces joined together, the body became whole. Who acts: Raven, pieces. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 164

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The Raven sprinkled them with the Water of Death—the pieces joined together, the body became whole.

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**Who acts:** Raven, pieces · **What happens:** sprinkle, join, become · **To what, where:** articles, pieces

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Raven, pieces), 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:pg540:7:164
# text = The Raven sprinkled them with the Water of Death—the pieces joined together, the body became whole.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Raven	Raven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
13	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sprinkle** | past | the Raven | articles *= article* |  |  |  | with the Water of Death | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with water=Theme |
| 2 | **join** | participle |  | the pieces and the body *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **become** | past | the pieces and the body |  |  |  |  | whole *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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