Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 6

[297] When the hero of a "fairy story" has been done to death by evil hands, his resuscitation by means of a healing and vivifying lotion or ointment[298] follows almost as a matter of course.

Who acts: evil hands, 297, healing, lotion, Death · What happens: do, mean, vivify, follow, resuscitate · To what, where: hero

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 (evil hands, 297, healing, lotion), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 297	punct
2	297	297	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 means	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 297	punct
4	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 done	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hero	det
6	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 done	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 story	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 story	det
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 story	punct
10	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 story	compound
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hero	nmod
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 story	punct
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 done	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 done	aux:pass
15	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 297	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 death	case
17	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 done	obl
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 hands	case
19	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hands	amod
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 done	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 resuscitation	punct
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 resuscitation	nmod:poss
23	resuscitation	resuscitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hands	conj
24	by	by	ADP	_	15 done	obl
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 healing	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 healing	det
28	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 means	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 vivifying	cc
30	vivifying	vivify	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 healing	acl
31	lotion	lotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 follows	nsubj
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 ointment	cc
33	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lotion	conj
34	[	[	PUNCT	_	35 298	punct
35	298	298	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 ointment	appos
36	]	]	PUNCT	_	35 298	punct
37	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 vivifying	advcl:relcl
38	almost	almost	ADV	_	41 matter	advmod
39	as	as	ADP	_	41 matter	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 matter	det
41	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 follows	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	41 matter	case
43	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 of	fixed
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present · perfect · passive	evil hands and Death's resuscitation	the hero of a fairy story	to death	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality
2	mean	present	297		of a healing	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	vivify	gerund	a healing not said here			tree rules
4	follow	present	lotion or ointment		as a matter	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent as matter=Value
5	resuscitate		Death			nom resuscitation «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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