--- title: As she clomb downhill, she saw boulders standing upright, and sprink… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: As she clomb downhill, she saw boulders standing upright, and sprinkled them with the Water of Life; and her brothers jumped up alive and said: “Oh, what a long sleep we have had!” Who acts: girl, boulders, brothers, we. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32, with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/32/117/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/32/) / 117 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 117 As she clomb downhill, she saw boulders standing upright, and sprinkled them with the Water of Life; and her brothers jumped up alive and said: “Oh, what a long sleep we have had!” **Who acts:** girl, boulders, brothers, we · **What happens:** see, stand, sprinkle, jump up, say, have · **To what, where:** boulders, long sleep · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, boulders, brothers, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:32:117 # text = As she clomb downhill, she saw boulders standing upright, and sprinkled them with the Water of Life; and her brothers jumped up alive and said: “Oh, what a long sleep we have had!” 1 As as ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 compound _ _ 3 clomb clomb NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 downhill downhill ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 boulders boulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 upright upright ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 sprinkled sprinkle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Water Water PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Life Life PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 30 “ " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 33 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 28 parataxis _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 37 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 36 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ! ! PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | girl | boulders | | | | as she clomb | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer boulder=Stimulus as clomb=Attribute | | 2 | **stand** | gerund | boulders *not said here* | | | | | upright *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sprinkle** | past | girl *not said here* | boulders *= boulder* | | | | with the Water of Life | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with water=Theme | | 4 | **jump up** | past | girl's brothers | | | | | alive *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: express* | past | girl's brothers *not said here* | | | | | what a long sleep *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | present · perfect | we | a long sleep *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient | 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. **Text:** «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/32/116/) - next →: [sentence 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/32/118/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/32/)