Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 47

Sometimes we meet with two magic fluids, one of which heals all wounds, and restores sight to the blind and vigor to the cripple, while the other destroys all that it touches.

Who acts: we, other, sight · What happens: meet, heal, restore, destroy, touch · To what, where: wounds, sight, blind

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 (we, other, sight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 meet	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 meet	nsubj
3	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 fluids	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 fluids	nummod
6	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fluids	amod
7	fluids	fluid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 meet	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 fluids	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 heals	nsubj
12	heals	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 one	acl:relcl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 wounds	det
14	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 heals	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 restores	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 restores	cc
17	restores	restore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 meet	parataxis
18	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 restores	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 blind	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 blind	det
21	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 restores	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 vigor	cc
23	vigor	vigor	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 blind	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 cripple	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cripple	det
26	cripple	cripple	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 vigor	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 destroys	punct
28	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 destroys	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 other	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 destroys	nsubj
31	destroys	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 restores	conj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 touches	det:predet
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 touches	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 touches	nsubj
35	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 destroys	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 meet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	meet	present	we			with two magic fluids; sometimes property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with fluid=Co-Agent
2	heal	present		all wounds			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wound=Patient
3	restore	present		sight	the blind and vigor to the cripple		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sight=Theme to blind=Recipient
4	destroy	present	the other				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	touch	present	sight				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 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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