Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 48

Sometimes, also, recourse is had to magic draughts of two kinds, the one of which strengthens him who quaffs it, while the other produces the opposite effect.

Who acts: one, other · What happens: have, strengthen, quaff, produce · To what, where: recourse, kind, opposite effect

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 (one, other), 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	7 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sometimes	punct
3	also	also	ADV	_	7 had	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 also	punct
5	recourse	recourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 had	aux:pass
7	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	10 draughts	mark
9	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 draughts	amod
10	draughts	draught	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 kinds	case
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 kinds	nummod
13	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 draughts	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 one	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kinds	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 strengthens	nsubj
19	strengthens	strengthen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 one	acl:relcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 strengthens	obj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 quaffs	nsubj
22	quaffs	quaff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 strengthens	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 quaffs	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 produces	punct
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 produces	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 other	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 produces	nsubj
28	produces	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 quaffs	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 effect	det
30	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 effect	amod
31	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 produces	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present · passive		recourse	sometimes property	tree rules
2	strengthen	present	the one	recourse		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	quaff	present		kind		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	produce	present	the other	the opposite effect		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Result

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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